(John Sterrett) I am not sure why but sometimes I am glutting for punishment. Maybe its why I try every backup and restore solution I can get my hands on?

(Semjon Terehhov) From time to time, you have to deal with source systems where records are not timestamped, i.e. no attribute that can be used to identify whether the record has been modified.

(blobeater) Sometimes you may not want to flip over to the Azure portal to grab the database size, such as the used space below.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: In daily scans of the SQL Server message logs there is an informational message Recovery is writing a checkpoint in database. What does this mean?

(Pinal Dave) Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post about SQL SERVER – Best Value for Max Worker Count, after reading this blog post, I got quite a lots of questions via email, LinkedIn and on Twitter to share my when it is appropriate to change Max Worker Count.

(Eli Leiba) I need to quickly find the last reboot time of the server and the last time the SQL Server service was restarted. In this tip we look at a simple stored procedure you can add to your SQL Server DBA toolbox to do this.

(Pinal Dave) Earlier this week, I had announced a contest to get Recorded PASS of my extremely popular training SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop – Recorded Classes. As the price of this class high, I wanted to keep my contest difficult as well.

(Nisarg Upadhyay) A regular expression is a rule which defines how characters can appear in an expression. It’s a sequence of character or text which determines the search pattern.

(Rajendra Gupta) Performance monitoring is a must to do the task for a DBA. You should ensure that the database performance is optimal all the time without any impact on the databases.

(Gauri Mahajan) Data is present in many different forms and analysis of this data gives valuable and actionable insights for organizations. Certain sectors in several industries make use of geographical and location data to make informed decisions in their businesses.