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Query Store Reports Time Intervals

A great question came up over at DBA.StackExchange regarding the query store reports time intervals: How can SQL Server’s Query Store Reports show data for minute-length intervals, when “Statistics...

2023-11-24 (first published: )

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Why Put PostgreSQL in Azure

I’ve had people come up to me and say “PostgreSQL is open source and therefore license free. Why on earth would I put PostgreSQL in Azure?” Honestly, I think...

2023-05-17 (first published: )

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ChatGPT Lied To Me

I’ve been seeing more and more noise about how ChatGPT can help with technical stuff, writing code, all that. Well, I wanted to know how best to set up...

2023-04-21 (first published: )

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Use a slicer to filter a visual based upon a measure in Power BI

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Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

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I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the...

Microsoft Fabric shortcuts

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I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the...

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Truncate tables where Referential Integrity exists

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Blocking question

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Hi all, We have a SSIS package that does 2 things in parallel: moves...

can I monitor auto stats updates through extended events?

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We have pretty big tables very sensitive to stats with many updates. Our systems...

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Question of the Day

Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database

I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?

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