For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting. These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be less than useful, and spaced out to [...]
Reblog: June 7 to June 13
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront. As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value. Some posts from years gone by that you [...]
The Side Effect of NOLOCK (video)
A while back I put together a blog post on the side effect of NOLOCK. Today I thought I’d push out a video of the issue, in hopes of reaching more people and changing more minds. What are your thoughts?
Security Questions: Migrate Logins Between Servers
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s, I received a large number of questions that there wasn’t time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I’ve opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will [...]
Security Questions: SQL Agent Permissions
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s, I received a large number of questions that there wasn’t time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I’ve opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will [...]
T-SQL Tuesday – Evil Plan Operators – #TSQL2sDay
This month, Rob Farley (Blog | @Rob_Farley) is running T-SQL Tuesday on plan operators. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blogging event where a number of us in the SQL Server community gets together to blog on a central topic. As mentioned, the topic is plan operators, or as Rob puts it: The topic is Plan Operators. If you ever [...]
June 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
Today is the second Monday of June and guess what I didn’t publish last week? That’s right, there wasn’t an update and reminder to the SQL Server Monthly checklist. Not a big deal, of course, I was at TechEd with about 10,000 other people, talking about indexing SQL Server. Fortunately, for me, waiting a week [...]
Looking to SQL Server 2014 High Availability In Standard Edition
During the keynote for TechEd North America 2013, Microsoft announced the planned release of SQL Server 2014. As part of this announcement, AlwaysOn Availability Groups will now support up to 8 readable secondaries, and include a number of improvements that will improve stability. While it hasn’t been announced yet, it is probably safe to assume [...]
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #36
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting. These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be less than useful, and spaced out to [...]
Reblog: May 31 to June 6
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront. As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value. Some posts from years gone by that you [...]







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