Password-less Authentication for Azure AD Guest Accounts with Azure SQL DB with Access Tokens
Learn how we can generate tokens that will give access to resources inside Azure without actually adding new users to your domain.
2019-07-01
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Articles
A DBA’s Journey towards Database DevOps
John Morehouse describes how a quest to help solve his organization's "deployment bottleneck" led them to a place where they could both deliver application and database changes into the wild at a pace to satisfy customer demand, and achieve a better work-life balance for the team, both of which are well worth having.
2019-07-01
How to Linux for SQL Server DBAs — Part 4
In this article, Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman continues teaching SQL Server DBAs how to navigate Linux. She demonstrates usings aliases, setting up environment variables, and examining processes.
2019-07-01
Introduction to Statistics
This article will give a brief overview of how statistics are generated, stored, and used in SQL Server.
2019-06-28 (first published: 2017-10-17)
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Loading partitions incrementally using SSIS
In this article, we discuss how to load large partition tables incrementally.
2019-06-28 (first published: 2017-10-13)
2,525 reads
Tips for Better Presentations
Brent Ozar gives some advice to those of you who give presentations to user groups and conferences.
2019-06-28
What’s the Difference Between PERCENT_RANK and CUME_DIST?
Learn a bit about the different results you get from the PERCENT_RANK and CUME_DIST aggregate functions.
2019-06-27
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How can we close the tech skills gap?
One of the most profound challenges faced by technology companies today is talent. According to the latest Harvey Nash survey, 65% of CIOs believe that a shortage of tech skills is affecting their ability to respond to change.
2019-06-27
Improving Tech with Compassionate Code
There is quite a bit of suffering within tech and caused by tech, from poorly commented code to shaming someone who asks a question on a forum. In this article, Samuel Nitsche explains why compassionate coding is a better way to go.
2019-06-27
Collect SQL Server Index Usage Information for all Instances with PowerShell
In this tip we look at a PowerShell script you can use to collect index information for all of your SQL Server instances that you manage.
2019-06-26
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