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If you are like me, you use the SSMS GUI for various things. Though, I tend to use scripts for the management of most things, I do check on the database growth rates of files using the GUI interface. While I was recently, doing a review of a client’s environment […]
Since joining Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, I tend to travel about once a month. This isn’t a huge amount and is usually over a weekend (except for that opportunity to go to Australia that didn’t pan out). Since I work in the IT field, security is highly important to […]
Microsoft Azure offers up a lot of technologies that you can play around with. One thing that you might not know is that they also offer up a mobile presence to help manage your Azure resource. The application is available for download for your mobile devices from the app store […]
Cloning things is all the rage these days…..even Storm Troopers. Anyway, by now, you probably have seen documentation on Query Store and DBCC Clonedatabase. Query Store, introduced in SQL Server 2016, is considered the “black box” or “flight recorder” of queries. It retains a history of executed queries, including run-time […]
After being immersed into the consulting world again for 6 months now, I’ve gotten to work with clients in several different areas of world, although most of them are based here in the United States. Over that time I learned every client is different and handles things differently, but that […]
DevOps. It’s one of the latest buzz words in many technical communities. Database Doing DevOps This phrase, however, is NOT heard in many technical communities. However, it really should be. Databases doing devops is probably one of the hardest things to tackle in the DevOps world. With hard work though, […]
Community. In the SQL Server community, we are basically one big #sqlfamily. This is a story of how the family helped one individual and one of the main reasons I am involved, to begin with. Meet Jerad. In happenstance, both our children attend the same school. He happened to recognize […]
In my experience, there have been occasions where SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) becomes unresponsive for a length of time. In one particular case, this occurred while I was expanding the list of databases. SSMS just sat there and waited for some unknown reason and became frustrating. The client eventually […]