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Not all of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long, thought-out answers. Some are just one-line specials, like these: F’legend: Hi Brent, in reply to a question talking about database restores for 1TB+ you also touched on scrubbing or synthetic data as a way to populate dev environments. Are there any resources/tools you would…

Normally, after I do a round of Office Hours of going through the questions that got posted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, I answer the highly upvoted ones and then clear the queue. If y’all didn’t upvote questions, then I don’t answer ’em. However, today I’m trying something different: I’ll post the non-upvoted questions here for y’all to…

This week, I’m writing blog posts that can be summed up in one image. Here’s the first one: You could probably stop reading right there, but if you’re not convinced, allow me to elaborate. SQL Server 2012 support ends July 12. No, there’s not a year in that sentence, because it’s this year. No, there’s no…

Microsoft releases SQL Server Cumulative Updates about every 60 days. This is a part of your job that you’re going to be doing a lot, so let’s get good at it! Here’s the strategy I like to use. Pick what patch you’re going to apply. Generally speaking, you should be on the most recent Cumulative…