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It was Christmas Eve, and Santa was busy at the North Pole managing his massive toy database. Santa’s Workshop ran on a robust SQL Server… Read More »The Christmas Query: A SQL Server Holiday Story

SQL Server Performance Consulting: Boost Your Database Efficiency When your SQL Server isn’t performing at its best, the impact on your business can be significant—slower… Read More »Boost Your Database Efficiency

Large Differential BACKUPs: When to Consider More Frequent Full Backups In SQL Server, differential backups are a great way to capture the changes that have… Read More »Large Differential Backups

Keep Your SQL Server Running Smoothly During the Holidays with Stedman Solutions’ Managed Services Contact us to find out how Stedman Solutions can help with… Read More »Keep Your SQL Server Running Smoothly During the Holidays

Each month we report on the most common waits that we see reported by our daily monitoring customers. All the data is sanitized, so there… Read More »Common Waits Reported by Daily Monitoring This Month

TDE: Are All My Databases Encrypted? One of the most critical aspects of database management is ensuring that sensitive data is protected. In SQL Server,… Read More »Are All My Databases Encrypted?

Wait statistics, in the context of SQL Server, refer to the amount of time that a query spends waiting to access data in the database.… Read More »SQL Server Wait Type: LCK_M_RS_S

SQL Server Left Outer Join with Exclusion: Explained When working with SQL Server, there are many scenarios where you need to combine data from multiple… Read More »Left Outer Join with Exclusion