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T-SQL Advice For Young, Old, and even Eccentric
Tag: TSQL Tuesday
3 Important Queries for Testing Your Availability Group Endpoints
In this article, I have shown the importance of performing three different validation tests against your Availability Group Endpoints. Each test also demonstrates what can be run in the event the validation test fails.
Automate Credit Card Audits
In this article, I have shown how to use the power of automation to help identify the risk of having card data stored in the database. Identifying this risk is essential to helping maintain the trust of your clientele and protecting your companies most valuable asset – the data!
Unconscious Bias
This article helps to unearth a cultural issue that each individual needs to address on a personal level. Bias is an enemy to productive conversation.
Disappearing Data Files
This article has just shared the power of XEvents and yet another use in helping to audit the database environment for changes. Not only do we have this powerful tool at our disposal for troubleshooting, but it is there for use as an audit tool as well as to help us create an RCA when needed.
Window Shopping the Query Store with XEvents
This article has just shared multiple tools to help you become more acquainted with the Query Store! This acquaintance is coming via an extremely powerful tool called Extended Events. Through the use of these two sessions and two additional scripts, this article demonstrates how to become more familiar with the internals for QDS.
Top 3 Database Life Hacks
Coping with Self Doubt
One of the best coping mechanisms for Impostor Syndrome is the use of learned behaviors. This article shares some of these coping mechanisms and learned behaviors.
The Gift of the SPN
Every once in a while there is an extremely valuable tool that comes along. While the footprint and use frequency of this tool may not be that big, the tool is essential to making the DBA job easier to do. I recommend getting this tool – especially if you have ever run into SSPI issues.
Why oh Why? Effects of Antivirus on a DB Server
At best these phantom backups cause undue headache in troubleshooting. At worst, they make it impossible to recover in the event of a database related disaster. Join me for a troubleshooting journey involving phantom backups.