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A First Look at SSMS 20

Recently Microsoft released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v20.0, which is a major release of the primary tool that many of us use to work with SQL Server. Over the last few years, the tools team at Microsoft has worked to separate the tools from the various editions, giving us separate SSMS downloads. There have […]

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2024-03-27

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Quick and Effective Migration Between CosmosDB Collections Using ADF

This document aims to explain the process of using ADF (Azure data Factory) to make a copy of a Cosmos DB (Instance A)  collection into a new collection in another Cosmos DB Instance effectively and cost effectively. For example, here is our  Instance A in the Data Explorer: Here is Instance B: We are looking […]

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2024-03-25

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Server Dashboards in Azure Data Studio

Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the server and database dashboards and how you can customize them. Another article will cover the Database dashboards. […]

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Database Feature Toggles

In software development the concept of feature toggles are used to selectively turn on and off features. They are, for example, used to restrict some newly introduced features to a select group to see how these features work. While this concept has been long used for user-facing application code, it is also a practice that is useful for database code.

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