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  • Website hosting challenges – SQL Hammer

    June 3, 2017

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    Derik Hammer

    I appreciate everyone’s patience with SQLHammer.com. It is encouraging that you are reading this instead of seeing a Cloudflare error message, a site that does…

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    April 22, 2016

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    Derik Hammer

    dbcc-page-iam Posted on March 31, 2016 at 9:05 pm by Derik Hammer / / 0 dbcc-ind demo table data

  • Performance tuning backup and restore operations – SQL Hammer

    Performance tuning backup and restore operations – SQL Hammer

    December 21, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    The standard backup strategy seems to always include backups running at midnight, hoping that they complete before anyone starts using the applications. There is…

  • Guest Post: Identifying and handling blocked processes in SQL Server – SQL Hammer

    December 17, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    Author Bio: Priyanka Chouhan is a technical writer in Stellar Data Recovery with 5 years of experience and has written several articles on SQL server &…

  • T-SQL Search Snippets – SQL Hammer

    T-SQL Search Snippets – SQL Hammer

    November 16, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    Here are two snippets that I use often to search for objects on a variety of servers. The first will search any object within…

  • Connect to SQL Server on Azure VM via Local SSMS – SQL Hammer

    November 10, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    After you provision a Microsoft Azure VM with SQL Server there are a few more steps that you need to take to make remote…

  • SQL PASS Summit 2015 – SQL Hammer

    November 2, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    Another amazing PASS Summit week is complete and I am sitting in SEA-TAC airport, waiting for my flight back to the east coast (at…

  • Counting NULLs and sub-sets of data – SQL Hammer

    October 13, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    Quick Tip: Counting NULLs and sub-sets of data You have been asked to produce a chart which will visualize a few data points. Total…

  • Help! I am Locked Out of my SQL Server Instance – SQL Hammer

    Help! I am Locked Out of my SQL Server Instance – SQL Hammer

    September 15, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    Beginning with SQL Server 2008, local administrators are no longer SQL Server sysadmins by default. Microsoft removed this feature in an attempt to increase…

  • Presentation: Architecting Availability Groups – SQL Hammer

    September 15, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    Track: Database Administration / Data Architecture Level: 200 – 300 Abstract: You are a DBA familiar with some basic Windows clustering and database mirroring…

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