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PASS Summit 2022 - Day 3 in Pictures
Other PASS Summit 2022 Days - Pre-Cons | Day 1 | Day 2--Day 3 of Summit 2022 was "Community Day" with a "community keynote" given by the amazing Kimberly Tripp (@kimberlyltripp) with help from her...
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PASS Summit 2022 - Day 2 In Pictures
Other PASS Summit 2022 Days - Pre-Cons | Day 1 | Day 3--Day 2 of Summit 2022 started earlier than usual with the "Breakfast with the Microsoft team: SQL Futures and Strategy" - the food was good and...
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PASS Summit 2022 - Day 1 In Pictures
Other PASS Summit 2022 Days - Pre-Cons | Day 2 | Day 3--The first "full" day of PASS 2022 kicked off with a bang when Rohan Kumar (@RohanKData) stepped out on the keynote stage to announce SQL Server...
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On Hybrid Events
In my blog post last night on Days 1 and 2 of the PASS Summit, I included the following comment:(Along with that, I think having "hybrid" events like our current Summit dilutes the impact of the...
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PASS Summit 2022 - Pre-Cons Were Amazing!
Other PASS Summit 2022 Days - Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3--It's that time again...TUESDAY!https://www.mememaker.net/static/images/memes/4791280.jpgI mean...NOVEMBER!https://tinyurl.com/33hezsjeOK...
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Disabling Non-Clustered Indexes For Fun and Profit
One of the frequently quoted ETL best practices is to disable your non-clustered indexes during a data load. Basically the conventional wisdom is that you disable the non-clustered indexes, do your...
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Unable to Connect to Target Server? But, I'm Already Connected!
I am working on an Azure SQL Database migration from an on-premises VM, and at the client's request I am working through the BACPAC Import/Export process rather than using Azure Database Migration...
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Another One Bites the Dust - PASS is Gone, so...What Now?
There has been a lot of noise over the last few weeks since it was announced that due to financial constraints related to canceling the in-person Summit due to COVID-19, PASS would cease to exist as of...
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Toolbox - When Intellisense Doesn't See Your New Object
I was just working on a new SQL job, and part of creating the job was adding a few new tables to our DBA maintenance database to hold data for the job. I created my monitoring queries, and then...
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Would You Pass the SQL Server Certifications Please? What Do You Mean We're Out?
I have held various certifications through my DBA career, from CompTIA A+ certification back when I worked help desk (I'm old) through the various MCxx that Microsoft has offered over the years...
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Error: 8623 - The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not...
Unfortunately a common error in many of our client environments is this:--Error: 8623, Severity: 16, State: 1.The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan. This...
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When Your Options Are Limited
In my role I am still on-call several times each month, and many of the escalations that come are simply things that newer DBA's and Help Desk staff have yet to run into - things that many employees at...
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Why I Believe In In-Person Training
I was recently asked a question from a manager regarding someone on my team when I requested to send them to a training experience: Are there CBT based alternatives that may be more affordable that...
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Toolbox - Exporting SSMS Results to Excel
I was working on another post when I found myself needing to dump out query results to a grid format to include in the post. This is a very normal situation - even in my day-to-day job I send emails...
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T-SQL Tuesday #111 - Why Do You Do What You Do?
This month's T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy Leonard (blog/@AndyLeonard) and his topic was this:That’s the question this month: Why do you do what you do?For me this was the easiest T-SQL Tuesday I...
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Why Can't I Shrink TempDB?
I know, I know....#OMGShrinkingIsBadDontEverDoThatOrElseEtcEtcEtcWe all know that there are simply times you have to shrink some files. There are risks - blocking, significant I/O, fragmentation, and...
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Things I Learned at Summit v20 - Visual Studio Code
Part of a series of posts on cool stuff I learned at PASS Summit v20 (2018) - in this post we'll look at a code editing tool that I hadn't seen before - Visual Studio Code.--When I attend a session at...
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Things I Learned at Summit v20 - Trace Flag 4199
Part of a series of posts on cool stuff I learned at PASS Summit v20 (2018) - in this first post we'll look at a trace flag I had never even heard of, let alone deployed -...
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Invalid value given for parameter PASSWORD. Specify a valid parameter value.
I still use sp_help_revlogin to transfer logins between servers. I know there are other options, including a set of Powershell commands contained in dbatools (#YouCanDoAnythingWithPowershell) but this...
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Coming Soon to Minnesota...Lincoln...and Seattle!!!
It's that time of year when SQLSaturdays start to slow down (in the U.S. anyway) as we march towards Summit and the holiday season.Having said that, I have three speaking engagements in the near future...
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