Cleaning up Query Store data after database restore
Query Store is a very powerful tool for performance tuning, if you are not using it already you should!! It...
2018-08-29 (first published: 2018-08-13)
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DBA Mastery
Enable SQLCMD Mode on SSMS
I really like Microsoft philosophy nowadays, they are putting a lot of time developing good open source tools like SQLCLI,...
2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-08-07)
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First time speaker at Denver’s SQL local group
06/21 was the date that marked my career as data professional, for the first time ever I decided to participate as...
2018-08-01
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Is your SQL Server environment ready for GDPR? Part 1
Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you have not heard about GDPR. This has been hot topic...
2018-05-25
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SQL Vulnerability Assessment
Vulnerability assessment is probably one of the most underrated new security features in SSMS 17. This feature is not new...
2018-05-21
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Reviewing the SQL Server ERROR log
The SQL Server ERROR log is the best source to understand what’s wrong with your SQL Server instance, think this...
2018-05-10
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ITIL certification for DBAs – Part 2
In my previous post I did my best explain a little bit what ITIL is and how important is for...
2018-04-13
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ITIL certification for DBAs – Part 1
In some point of your career as DBA you might have interacted with ITIL or at least your heard about...
2018-04-13
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SQL Saturday #695 Guatemala
This is probably a very delayed post, but I have been really busy lately.
As mentioned in my previous post, I...
2018-03-23
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Speaker at SQL Saturday’s Guatemala city 2018
I’m very thrilled to announce that I will be participating as speaker in this year’s SQL Saturday event in Guatemala city!
Here...
2018-01-04
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...