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SQL 2016 Perform Volume Maintenance Task
This is a welcome addition to the install for SQL Server 2016 that I had not seen mentioned previously (you can find lots of posts about the new tempdb options, for example).The post SQL 2016 Perform...
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Blog Roll - List of blog post and script contribution
Greetings of the day!!I am getting frequent emails with questions why I do not write as often I used to write earlier. I know, I got very few blog posts since 2013; the reason was that I had some...
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SQL (Orphaned) User Without a Login: HowTo Create a Login For The User
Whenever I restore a database from a customer in my development environment I have the issue of orphaned users: users in the database have no corresponding login on the server/instance. I found this...
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Ad-hoc Changes
TSQL Tuesday #74: Be The Change Each month, on the first Tuesday of the month, the announcement for the blog party T-SQL Tuesday comes out. Those that are interested then post their blogs, on the...
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3 Reasons to Attend SQL Saturday Austin on Jan 30th
The Austin SQL Server User Group will host its third SQL Saturday on Saturday,SQL Saturday Austin on January 30th, 2016January 30th.SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and...
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Pause SQL Server Service Before Restarting
By pausing the SQL Server service before restarting the instance we allow end users to continue their work uninterrupted and we also stop any new connections to the instance.The post Pause SQL Server...
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Descriptive Statistics In Power BI/M With Table.Profile()
As Buck Woody notes here, when you are exploring a new data set it can be useful calculate some basic descriptive statistics. One new M function that appeared in Power BI recently can help you to do...
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My Work Autobiography
8 years at D2L and countingSome years ago, a friend of mine told me I should check out the company he worked for. There was a position that was focused solely on SQL Server. At the time I didn’t think...
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Problem removing files from TempDB
I recently ran into an interesting problem while attempting to remove approximately half of the TempDB data files configured in a testing environment. As you might expect, there are various SQL Server...
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Latest post on my Handy IoT Toolkit is released!
I’ve started to update my IoT Toolkit blog post series.You can get the latest post from here, which gives you some ideas on communication for your virtual blended team, and some pointers towards handy...
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Creating a cluster without Domain Admin permissions
If you’ve ever watched a presentation when someone sets up a cluster you’ve probably noticed that it goes pretty smoothly. The reason for this is because the account which the presenter uses is a...
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T-SQL Code Coverage in SSDT using the SSDT Dev Pack
Code CoverageWhat is code coverage?When you write some code and then test it, how sure are you that you have tested the whole thing? Code coverage gives you an idea of how well tested a bit of code...
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Tip # 9 – Automatically Shrinking Your Database
Top 10 Tips for SQL Server Performance and ResiliencyThis article is part 9 in a series on the top 10 most common mistakes that I have seen impact SQL Server Performance and Resiliency. This post is...
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What is RESULT SETS?
I was reading some code the other day and it included the statement RESULT SETS. I’d never seen it before so it seemed worth a quick look. I’ll warn you in advance this is somewhat of a BOL blog post....
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Change Availability Group Endpoint IP
I had someone email me and ask how they could change the IP address on their Availability Group Endpoint. It’s no surprise that IPs need to be changed from time to time due to certain circumstances,...
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PowerShell- Monitoring Multiple Services On Multiple Servers Using WMI Class...
The requirement is to check only those services where startup mode set to Auto and services that stopped. In my previous post have used Get-Service cmdlet which do not bind any such information hence...
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Interpret SQL Transaction Log using sys.fn_dblog
Ever wondered how to read the transaction log for a database? There is an undocumented SQL function sys.fn_dblog which may help you to read T-Log except for the truncated transaction details. We can...
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PowerShell e o Metrô
Trabalhando no centro você acaba tendo que usar muito o transporte público, o que na maioria dos casos é muito chato,,,Devido a chuva a operação da CPTM e do Metrô estavam com algumas lentidões, mas...
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Updating Metadata in SSIS
This is just a quick tip re: updating metadata in SSIS. A few days ago I was speaking with an SSIS developer who wasn't aware of this change so I thought I'd share it.Let's say a column is deleted in...
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