This had me in tears laughing...

(This post first appeared on SQLperformance.com four years ago as part of a blog series, before that website was mothballed later in 2022 and the

It’s quite common for a company that experiences a corruption-causing disaster, but has no valid backups to restore from and no ability to fail over

I thought it was bad previously, but in 2026 I’ve noticed a big rise in emails trying to scam me into clicking a link –

There are a huge number of best practices around SQL Server performance tuning – I could easily write a whole book on the topic, especially

Jonathan had a client issue recently where SQL Server’s buffer pool had been forced down to a ridiculously small size, only a few hundred MB,

(This post first appeared on SQLperformance.com four years ago as part of a blog series, before that website was mothballed later in 2022 and the

This had me in tears laughing…