SQL Server maintains a variety of stats about all sort of performance items. Index usage (or missing indexes) Query performance Corrupt pages Disk IO performance Way more than I...
2021-10-11 (first published: 2021-09-30)
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Welcome back to the series “Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs.” So far in this series we’ve taken a look at how to set up your work...
2021-07-06
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Welcome back to our series, Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs, where we’ve been taking an in-depth look at how to get ready to perform regular SQL...
2021-06-28 (first published: 2021-06-16)
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(This post comes from one of our Junior DBAs – @SQLDork) I’m learning how to use dbatools. Today’s command: Backup-DbaDatabase I’m using the 64-bit PowerShell ISE (running as administrator),...
2021-04-26 (first published: 2020-04-27)
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Let’s take a look at the final few steps of your initial server intake process and get your workflow up and running as you push toward performing regular server...
2021-04-05 (first published: 2021-03-25)
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The next post of this series is finally ready to fly. I apologize for the delay between posts, but between the rolling blackouts in Texas during the 2021 Snowpaclypse...
2021-03-18 (first published: 2021-03-15)
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It’s time for the fourth post in my series about performing regular server reviews. In the first post, we took a look at setting up your local environment. The...
2021-02-09
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It's probably not your fault, but relying on the defaults of a SQL Server installation might be impacting the performance of your instance.
2021-02-05 (first published: 2018-11-01)
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Welcome back to my ongoing series about how we perform regular server reviews here at Dallas DBAs, and the tips and tricks I’ve picked up in my first 1.5...
2021-02-03
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Welcome back to my Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs series. Last week, we took a closer look at the first steps of getting your environment set...
2021-02-03 (first published: 2021-01-27)
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By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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