What are Warehouses in Microsoft Fabric?
In this article, we look at using Microsoft Fabric to build a data warehouse and some things you should know about doing this.
2023-11-20
Articles
Scheduling SQL Agent Jobs on Alternating Weeks
Bi-week... semi-week... fortnight... "every two weeks" Recently on the SQL Community Slack group, someone asked if there was a way to schedule a backup to run on alternate weeks. I'm not exactly sure why (maybe they wanted to run full and differential backups on alternating weeks), but yes, we can do that. In part one […]
2023-11-17
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How to get your security team on board with your cloud migration
In this second part of the Q&A with Dustin Dorsey, we asked him about how to get buy-in from security teams who are cautious by nature, how to encourage the wider IT team to accept their recommendations, and what additional challenges highly regulated sectors like healthcare and finance face.
2023-11-17
Is your organization using MongoDB? Help the Redgate Flyway team understand your pain points.
Is MongoDB in use within your organization? The Flyway development team is adding MongoDB support into Flyway and would like to better understand the current pain points. If you are able help, or are interested in finding out more, please participate in our 5-minute survey.
2023-11-17
How to join the free PASS Data Community Summit Livestream from around the world
Learn how you can watch the sessions livestreamed from the PASS Data Community Summit 2023.
2023-11-15
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SQL Server Table Design Guidelines - Data Types, Designing for Deletes and Primary Keys
In this article, we look at three table design guidelines when building an SQL table including data types, designing for deletes, and primary keys
2023-11-15
Azure Data Studio - A First Look
See a first look at Azure Data Studio from Kenneth Igiri and read about his impressions.
2023-11-13
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It’s Probably Time to Upgrade Your Cloud VMs
If you’ve been in Azure or Amazon for a few years, you’re probably on old, slow hardware.
2023-11-13
Security in the cloud: Whose responsibility is it?
While the cloud is recognized as more secure than on-premises servers and infrastructures, it does come with the often talked about shared responsibility model. Cloud providers are responsible for security ‘of’ the cloud, while their clients are responsible for security ‘in’ the cloud. Find out more in this Q&A with Dustin Dorsey
2023-11-13
The PASS Data Community Summit First Timer Guide
The 2023 First-Timer guide to the PASS Data Community Summit is available from Edwin Sarmiento
2023-11-10
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Blogs
Scaling PowerShell – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
Installing Old Versions of PowerShell Modules with Their Dependencies
By alevyinroc
I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a...
In Memory of Andrew Clarke, AKA Phil Factor
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
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taking the rcsi dive
Hi, we put together an extract that runs every 15 minutes against what i...
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Question of the Day
Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers