SQL Server Identity Values Check on GitHub
Last year I blogged about a script that Karen López (blog | @datachick) and I wrote together to help you determine if you were running out of identity values.
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Using Non-default Ports for SQL Server
The contentious issue here is the use of a non-default port for SQL Server.
The Future of the DBA
I’ve written before about how databases are like a car engine, and DBAs are like a car mechanic. That’s been the traditional view for production DBAs for, well, forever I think. And that analogy may have been true at one time, and may still be true for some DBAs. But the industry is changing. First we … Read more
Installing SQL Server vNext on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure
Today I wanted to help walk you through how to be up and running with SQL Server on Linux so that you can kick the tires on this version yourself.
2016 Microsoft MVP Summit Preview
This will be my 8th MVP Summit and I am as excited for this one as I was for my first. There’s a lot of reasons why, and I’m going to do m
Crosstown Traffic and the Future of Monitoring
When it comes to monitoring data, the are only five possible resource bottlenecks (disk, memory, cpu, network, locking/blocking).
