Steve talks about working from home and finding ways to manage your work life balance.

Visualise SQL Server IO Stats

by Philip Robinson

SQLServerCentral.com

Power BI

Visualise and compare the output of set statistics io on with Power BI to assist with performance tuning.

Gathering SQL Server Performance Counters for Multiple Servers

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Redgate

SQL Toolbelt

SQL Multi Script can easily be persuaded to run queries at the server level rather than the database level. It is also able to combine results from many databases even if the results aren't identical but have some different columns. Phil Factor demonstrates how this works, when collecting a set of performance counters from all databases on a distribution list of servers.

Getting Started with Azure DevOps

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SimpleTalk

DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Microsoft provides Azure DevOps for hosting your repos, setting up pipelines and more. In this article, Diogo Souza shows you how to get started using Azure DevOps.

Basic Git for DBAs: What's a Pull Request?

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Steve continues his series on Git for DBAs by looking at code review and pull requests.

Security for 2FA

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Security

Steve has issues with 2FA, which might be a good thing.

Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 3 Maintenance and Additional Options

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SimpleTalk

SQL Performance

In the final article of this series, Edward Pollack demonstrates the maintenance of columnstore indexes. He also takes a look at nonclustered columnstore and memory-optimized columnstore indexes.

What specific deployment data is valuable to you or your organization?

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Redgate

survey

Redgate have assembled a small development team to research and build a capability that not only records your deployments over time, but provides a window into past trends and insights. To achieve the best results we need to understand from you what deployment value should be recorded and displayed. Please help us by completing our short two-page survey.