On Wednesday January 25th at 6:00pm we will be hosting the monthly meeting of the Bellingham SQL Server Users Group. January SQL Server Users Group In-Person @ 709 West Orchard Drive #4 Bellingham, Washington 18:00 – 20:00 (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time …

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The TL;DR summary: Life is good, business is good, and I am loving it. Ready to roll with Year 2 of Stedman Solutions, LLC. The Details It has been an interesting year.  I officially formed the business about 3 years …

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The check for excessive sysmaintplan_logdetail has be added to the Database Health Monitor – Quick Scan Report. If you haven’t had a maintenance plan to clean up maintenance plan history, it can grow excessively over time. I recently worked on a …

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The check for Cost Threshold for Parallelism check has be added to the Database Health Monitor – Quick Scan Report. The Cost Threshold For Parallelism setting in SQL Server controls the level at which the query optimizer decides to have a query …

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