Jason Brimhall


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The Gift of the SPN

Every once in a while there is an extremely valuable tool that comes along. While the footprint and use frequency of this tool may not be that big, the...

2019-12-10

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Life Support 2008 – Audit Logons

Planning to upgrade/migrate requires a fair amount of prep work. Some of that prep work involves auditing your server for any users that may still be using the instance.
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2019-08-09 (first published: )

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Finding Data Gaps

Quality data is a goal we all strive to attain. Nobody wants to have bad data. Yet, despite our best efforts, the problem of bad data has its way...

2019-08-05 (first published: )

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Event Files on Linux

For the most part, things work the way you might expect them to work in windows - except it is on Linux. Sure some things are different, but SQL...

2019-07-29 (first published: )

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Is That Database in Use?

This article demonstrates how to use Extended Events to determine if a database is being used by someone or something.
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2019-07-22 (first published: )

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Join a List of Values

There are multiple ways of retrieving data from a table when you have a list of values. This article explores the use of the table value constructor.
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2019-07-18 (first published: )

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Rolling Back a Broken Release

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We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...

A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth

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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...

Presenting with Visual Studio Code

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A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...

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Lots of FKs

In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?

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