Clive Roberts https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Health Check 03: backups Health Check 00: is this SQL Server running well? Migrating a Reporting Services Installation (Native Mode) Health Check 02: databases Health Check 01: server overview Upgrading SSRS 2005 to 2012 (Quick and Dirty) Azure SQL Options News: [Video] Office Hours on the Last Alaskan Cruise of the Season Change Data Capture (CDC) Building an Availability Group Migrating SQL Server to Azure What Happens During a Data Change: Buffer Pool, Write-Ahead Log and Durability News: Thoughts on AI After My Panel Discussion Reading Execution Plans Transaction Modes: Auto commit, Explicit and Implicit Plan Caching and Parameterization SQL Server Trace Flags News: I’m Probably Not Supposed To Show You Microsoft’s Auto-Indexing Tool. News: AI Stories and Thoughts News: Why’s This Query So Slow in Prod? Check sp_BlitzPlanCompare. News: [Video] Talking Pronouns in Alaska The T-SQL CHOOSE Function SQL Server News Patch: SQL Server 2025 CU10 (build 17.0.5035.5) SQL Server Patches Patch: SQL Server 2017 CU31 + GDR (build 14.0.3560.2) Patch: SQL Server 2017 GDR (build 14.0.2140.2) Patch: SQL Server 2019 CU32 + GDR (build 15.0.4500.2) Patch: SQL Server 2019 GDR (build 15.0.2200.2) Patch: SQL Server 2022 GDR (build 16.0.1210.3) Patch: SQL Server 2022 CU27 + GDR (build 16.0.4305.5) Patch: SQL Server 2025 CU9 + GDR (build 17.0.5015.4) Patch: SQL Server 2025 GDR (build 17.0.1145.4) News: Free Webcast: How to Think Like the SQL Server & Postgres Engines News: Fact-Checking Microsoft’s “PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Connections” News: Breaking News: Hold Off on SSMS 22.11.0 Which Trace Flags to Keep on SQL Server 2016–2022 Set Up TempDB Data Files: One per CPU, up to 8 Configure msdb Size and Growth in SQL Server Cycle the SQL Server Error Log Nightly (Agent Job) Weekly Index Maintenance Agent Job (Ola Hallengren) Set Up SQL Server Agent Alert Emails (Database Mail) sp_who3: sp_who2 with SQL Text, Waits and Reads SQL Server Post-Install Configuration Script Weekly DBCC CHECKDB Agent Jobs (Ola Hallengren) Who Is Connected to SQL Server? (T-SQL) Fix “Cannot Connect to WMI Provider” in Configuration Manager Find Which Queries Are Using TempDB Right Now Check VLF Counts for Every SQL Server Database Move SQL Server Backup Files with xp_cmdshell