Setting up SQL Server on Red Hat Linux in AWS - Part 1
In this post, Pinakin Patel looks at the preliminary steps you need to peform to build an instance in AWS to run SQL Server on Red Hat Linux.
2018-05-10
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Articles
Kafka Integration with HDInsight
Microsoft HDInsight is the cloud service that deploys and provisions Hadoop clusters on the Azure cloud. It's a completely managed, open source analytics service to support enterprise needs and supports a wide variety of scenarios with the help of open source frameworks like Hadoop, Storm, Spark, R Server and Hive.
2018-05-09
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Provisioning SQL Server Instances with Docker
With SQL Server 2017, Microsoft announced the exciting news that SQL Server would now run in Docker containers. Laerte Junior provides a guide to get started creating SQL Server instances in Docker.
2018-05-08
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2018-05-07
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Parking Garages And Predicates
You lost your car in a big parking lot. Erik Darling explains how this is just like an index scan.
2018-05-07
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Navigating Hadoop Resources
Learn where to get the latest installation and learning resources for the ever-evolving components of Hadoop ecosystem and how those components may complement Microsoft SQL Server common everyday tasks.
2018-05-04 (first published: 2015-10-01)
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“But I don’t need to back up that database.”
Brent Ozar shares four stories of people who thought they could avoid backups - and got burned.
2018-05-04
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Scripting Objects with PowerShell
In the third installment of this series, Steve Jones uses PowerShell to source control code.
2018-05-03
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150 SQL Code Smells
Some time ago, Phil Factor wrote his booklet 'SQL Code Smells', collecting together a whole range of SQL Coding practices that could be considered to indicate the need for a review of the code. It was published as 119 code smells, even though there were 120 of them at the time. Phil Factor has continued to collect them and the current state of the art is reflected in this article. SQL Prompt is committed to cover as many as possible of them. Phil has also updated his book, which is free to download.
2018-05-03
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Packaged-Application Database Nightmares - A Horror Story
The business decides on a packaged application and buys it. After installation, you look at the schema and realize that is is a nightmare. How do you manage this nightmare?
2018-05-02 (first published: 2015-12-22)
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Blogs
Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes
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Three Ways to Use Snowflake Data in Microsoft Fabric
By James Serra
Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting...
Deploying an Updated Model with SQL Compare 16
By Steve Jones
In a previous post, I deployed a model to a database using SQL Compare...
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The Query Optimizer and Page Density
If I have a fillfactor set to 70%, this reduces my page density to roughly 70%. Does this affect the query plans that the optimizer chooses?
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