Kevin3NF

Kevin Hill is a career SQL Server DBA living in Dallas, TX. His specialities include HA/DR, Best Practice configuration, Performance tuning and teaching new and accidental DBAs
  • Interests: Cycling, family, sci-fi, DBA stuff

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Code That Writes Code

“Work Smarter, not Harder” We’ve all heard it before, pretty much any job, anywhere. In our DBA slice of the IT world, this is very relevant to how we...

2023-05-08 (first published: )

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Where Is My SQL Server Errorlog?

If you need to find the SQL Server ErrorLog in a hurry and don’t want to spend 30 minutes drilling into every drive on the server: “I don’t watch...

2022-11-21 (first published: )

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SQL Server Registered Servers

Query multiple SQL Server instances at one time! Thanks for watching! Kevin3NF Follow @Dallas_DBAs
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2022-11-09 (first published: )

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SQL Server Best Practices

As a CIO or CTO, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure that your organization’s data is managed effectively and efficiently. To do this, you need to have...

2022-09-14

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SQL Server Migration and Upgrade

(This post written by Jon Biggs (t), one of our Senior DBAs) We are currently performing migrations with upgrade of multiple-instance SQL Servers to new servers. The migrations are...

2022-03-22

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Group By Starting Characters

I was chatting with Jeff (b|t) on my team yesterday and the context escapes me but I had this thought: “Can you Group By the beginning characters, or a...

2021-10-29 (first published: )

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Do Full Backups Break Log Shipping?

TLDR: Nope. Keep on doing your full backups. Make sure that any databases you Log Ship are NOT also doing log backups in your SQL Maintenance Plans, Ola Jobs,...

2021-10-22 (first published: )

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Monday Monitor Tips: Using the PowerShell API

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Data Governance: The Invisible AI Accelerator

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