Azure DWH Part 5: How to work with the command line in Azure SQL DW
This time we will work with the sqlcmd to handle our Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2017-03-09
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Articles
2017-03-09
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Exploring Azure Storage for SQL Server DBAs
If you need to run SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine, your choice of Azure storage will have a great effect on its performance. If performance is important, you are likely to discover complications and barriers in the storage options when you come to provision the server. If you get it wrong, you could end up with an expensive service. Joshua explains the value of using a lab environment to allow you to make well-informed VM storage decisions when the time comes to provision your production system.
2017-03-09
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Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise
Today during the Visual Studio launch event, we announced that we’ve partnered with Redgate to include Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017. Redgate Data Tools includes three components that extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases and increase your productivity while doing database development.
2017-03-09
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2017-03-08
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TempDB Database On a Local Disk for an FCI
The article is about Configuring TempDB Database on Local Disk in SQL Server 2012/2014 Failover Cluster to improve performance.
2017-03-08
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Move Azure SQL Databases using the Export and Import PowerShell cmdlets
John Miner shows how to move databases between a cloud development environment and an on-premise production environment using PowerShell cmdlets.
2017-03-08
3,664 reads
Detective Stories - Tracking Down the Database's Dependents Part 2
No worries about dropping databases. Now we can search for its dependencies before the database dies. Part 2 of a 2-part article.
2017-03-07
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Query Store and In-Memory OLTP
Once you have Query Store enabled on your databases, runtime statistics are generated for your queries; but what about the natively-compiled stored procedures and memory optimised tables that come with In-Memory OLTP? Do you get the full range of runtime statistics? This is an intriguing question that Enrico explores and answers.
2017-03-07
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SSIS Catalog Compare v2.0 Launch Event
Join the SSIS Catalog Compare v2.0 Launch Event on Tue, Mar 7 at 13:00 EST.
2017-03-07 (first published: 2017-03-03)
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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