Casino Night is Back
Casino Night from SQL Server Central is coming back to the PASS Data Community Summit.
Delta Table Performance Is Governed By Transaction Size: Data Engineering with Fabric
This next article examines the impact of transaction sizes on the performance of our Delta Parquet tables.
Event Streams for Persistent and Asynchronous Microservice Communication
This article looks at how you can use event sourcing to maintain persistent and asynchronous communication between microservices.
The Invisible Disk
Steve sees disk drives as shrinking to the point of being invisible to most of us.
Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing JSON in SQL Server
Like XML, JSON is an open standard storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other unstructured or semi-structured data. Because of its heavy usage in applications today, it inevitably will make its way into databases where it will need to be stored, compressed, modified, searched, and retrieved.
Knowing What You Don't Know
I used to think I knew everything. I felt like I had the world all figured out. But then, when I went to kindergarten, I realized that I didn't know much at all. As I grew older and finished college, I regained confidence in my knowledge and again felt like I knew everything about the […]
Using Containers to Avoid Installing SQL Server
I got a new laptop recently and instead of installing SQL Server, I decided to try and use containers to see how well this works. This article looks at how I got this working relatively quickly. The short list of things I did is: Install Docker Desktop Create a location for data/logs/etc. Create a docker-compose […]
SQL ROUND Function vs. Bankers Rounding with T-SQL
Learn about rounding values using T-SQL and how the ROUND function works compared to creating a user-defined function for bankers rounding.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #178–A Recent Technical Problem
By Steve Jones
This month we have a good invitation from Deepthi Goguri, where she asks us...
Redgate Clone Graduating Images
By Steve Jones
I wanted my own custom image in our internal Redgate Clone cluster, so I...
Forums
GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
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How to Add a New Shared Disk to a WSFC as a SQL Resource
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Question of the Day
Setting Emergency State
Which server role(s) can set a database to the Emergency State?
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