Many of us have a journey, either to SQL Server, or in today's world of many databases, perhaps away from SQL Server. Steve looks at his, and another's, journies.
An interesting question came in on PollGab. DBAmusing asked: If a query takes 5-7s to calculate the execution plan (then executes <500ms) if multiple SPIDS all submit that query (different param values) when there’s no plan at start, does each SPID calc the execution plan, one after the other after waiting for the prior SPID to finish?
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. […]
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 […]
In this article, learn how you can manage files and folders for both full and incremental loading situations.
Managing costs in the cloud is something many companies are concerned about. Today Steve thinks that technical people will bear more responsibility for this in the future.
Learn about Eventstream in Microsoft Fabric to ingest, transform, and route real-time data to certain destinations in a low-to-no-code SaaS fashion.
Steve does a lot of work with teams trying to adopt DevOps, and today has another description of what this can mean for your team.
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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On April 16, 2024, I will be giving another webcast; this one will be...
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I have a small test sandbox database on an instance with default master, model, msdb, and tempdb settings. The database has these files:I now run this command:
DBCC CLONEDATABASE(sandbox, sandbox_clone); GOWhen I examine the database file properties, what do they show? See possible answers