T-SQL Tuesday #45 – Who’s Auditing My SSIS Packages?
It’s time once again for that monthly geek party again we like to call T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday #45 is...
2013-08-13
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DBCC CHECKDB … Terminated Abnormally Due to Error State 6
I recently encountered a DBCC CHECKDB failure with a fairly non-specific failure message. The error message said it terminated abnormally...
2013-07-24
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Looking for Buried Treasure in the Transaction Log
Lately, I’ve been finding more and more reasons to look in the transaction log for investigative purposes. Questions come up...
2013-05-27
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Bug: sys.dm_db_session_space_usage Reporting Extremely High Tempdb Allocations
A little more than a year ago while working at Idera, I was consulted on reports from a few clients...
2013-05-21
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T-SQL Tuesday #41 – Presenting Comes Full Circle and I Love It!
It’s time for that monthly geek party again we like to call T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday is one of the...
2013-04-09
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Network Packet Size: to Fiddle With or Not to Fiddle With
A network pipeline isn’t nearly as pleasant to look at as the oil pipeline (or anything) in Alaska, but it’s...
2013-03-27
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Day 31 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Backup and Restore of the Resource Database
It has been a long journey to the final day my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, but we have...
2013-03-28 (first published: 2013-03-25)
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Day 30 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery (T-SQL Tuesday #40): Using Partial Availability and Initialize from Backup to Replicate a Partial Database
It’s been a tough and long road to 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. It’s been very difficult coming up with...
2013-03-12
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The Saddest Thing I Ever Heard a Manager Say
I am currently going through the process of looking for a new opportunity for my career. I’m going through the...
2013-03-08 (first published: 2013-03-01)
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Day 29 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Using Database Snapshots to Restore Replicated Databases in Test
For day 29 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recover series, I want to talk about restoring replicated databases from...
2013-02-25
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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