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: 2023-04-28)
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Dallas DBAs
Organize Your Tabs in SQL Server Management Studio
I blogged about this in August, but wanted to do this video as well: Thanks for reading and/or watching! Kevin3NF Follow @Dallas_DBAs
The post Organize Your Tabs in SQL Server...
2022-11-02
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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: 2022-11-01)
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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: 2022-10-28)
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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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Restore Database or Restore Log?
How long has this worked, and why didn’t anyone tell me? A typical restore statement from a FULL backup and a LOG backup: USE [master] RESTORE DATABASE [XE_demo] FROM...
2022-05-11
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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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Purging a SQL Server Express Database
This is not another IRL post, but rather is more of “Help, my SQL Express database is full!” post. I was contacted by a lawyer that was using a...
2022-01-12 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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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: 2021-10-22)
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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: 2021-10-15)
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
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
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
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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