Replication Latency
I've used Replication a lot over the years and contrary to the opinions of most DBA’s I know, I think it...
2013-01-25
2,011 reads
SQL Server 365
SQL Server 365 - Fantastic First Year In Numbers
So, tomorrow marks one year since I started blogging here on SQL Server 365 and what a year it has...
2012-12-31
1,379 reads
Active Directory Group Membership and Powershell
I’ve done my fair share of work with Active Directory over the years and LDAP has helped immensely, it did...
2012-12-19
832 reads
Tables without a Primary Key
As well as creating the script for yesterday’s post on finding Tables without a Clustered Index I tweaked the script...
2012-12-06 (first published: 2012-11-30)
5,210 reads
Tables without a Clustered Index
Yesterday while adding some new logic to an existing process I noticed an unacceptable level of performance degradation with the...
2012-11-29
1,535 reads
Unused Indexes
A sound indexing strategy is paramount to performance in an OLTP system. Not having the correct indexes in place can...
2012-11-27
2,545 reads
Database Mirroring Performance Counters
This week’s SQL Skills insider email contains a simple but often too true scenario regarding database mirroring. If you haven’t...
2012-11-21 (first published: 2012-11-14)
2,720 reads
Database Mirroring Error
I have been setting up multi instance database mirroring for the last couple of days along with some other DR...
2012-10-26
636 reads
Create Database Script
I always try to enforce standards across all the SQL Servers I manage, it makes tons of administrative tasks much...
2012-09-21
1,108 reads
tablediff Utility
I recently stumbled across a little gem of a utility called tablediff. I have been working a lot with replication...
2012-09-20
6,690 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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