MAXDOP, Parallelism and the Cloud
Parallelism and MAXDOP The pros and cons of parallelism have always been with us in SQL Server and I blogged about this a couple of years ago. This is...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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Matthew McGiffen DBA
Finding “Orphaned” database files – script
When you drop a database from a SQL Server instance the underlying files are usually removed. This doesn’t happen however if you set the database to be offline first,...
2019-03-27
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Checking Progress of the Creation of your Azure Resources
When I’ve created resources in Azure it’s usually taken from a few minutes and up to quarter of an hour...
2019-02-26
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Using the Sequence Object to Generate Reference Numbers
The SEQUENCE object was added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2012. It’s reasonably well known to DBAs, but less so...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2019-02-20)
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There’s got to be a better way
For T-SQL Tuesday #111, Andy Leonard asks “What is your why? Why do you do what you do?”
Like Andy, I...
2019-02-12
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“SSPI handshake failed” \ “The login is from an untrusted domain” errors
I’ve recently encountered an issue that was difficult to resolve and I didn’t find the particular cause that was troubling...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2019-02-12)
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Some differences with SQL Server when running on AWS RDS
If you plan on using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host your SQL Server based applications in the cloud, then...
2018-12-12
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Extended Events Made Easy – Sorting, Grouping and Aggregation
When I’m using Profiler to analyse performance issues I often save the results to a table, or upload a trace...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-10-16)
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T-SQL Tuesday 107 – Viral Demo
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. Jeff Mlakar invites to talk about “a project you worked on or were impacted by...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-10-09)
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Checking for Membership of a Specific Active Directory Group
As part of my job I manage a bunch of SQL instances for Development and Test.
Access is managed though Active...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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Blogs
Plan Time for Self-Development
By Brian Kelley
As you begin the new year, if you don't already have time set aside...
BK’s Bookshelf: Never Split the Difference
By Brian Kelley
I picked up Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On...
Replacing Images in PBIR Format Reports
With the PBIR format of Power BI reports, it’s much easier to make report...
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