Sending resource alerts on Managed Instance using db_mail

One of the biggest issue that you might experience in Managed Instance is reaching storage limit or finding out that you don't have enough CPU. In this case you would need to get the bigger instance; however, this is not instant operation. In this post, you will see how you can monitor resource usage and send email alerts if there is a risk that you might reach the limits.

Configuring an SSIS ForEach Loop for Multiple File Types

The ForEach loop works with only one file type at a time by default. Learn how you can add code to your packages to work with multiple types of files.

Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related to source control. But it’s finally providing us with a solution to these challenges. Let’s analyse this piece-by-piece.

Searching an Encrypted Column

This article examines the challenges with searches on encrypted data and presents a possible solution that you might use to speed up those queries.

Running Azure CosmosDB queries from SQL Server using ODBC driver

Azure CosmosDB provides ODBC driver that enables you to query CosmosDB collections like classic databases. In this post you will see how to query CosmosDB collections from Sql Server using Transact-Sql.

When an update doesn’t update

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: I changed data from my application, but when I checked the database, I couldn’t see the change! I’ve seen this. Loads. It can be quite perplexing for folks because they expect to see an error message if the insert, update, or delete failed.

SQL GROUP BY Alias - An Oracle feature that would be great in SQL Server

Learn about using an alias in the GROUP BY clause for complex SQL Server code instead of having to rewrite the code in the GROUP BY.

SQL Window Functions Series: LAG() and LEAD()

Dive deep into the powerful SQL window functions, LAG() and LEAD(). Explore their intricacies, discover real-world examples, and avoid common pitfalls.

Identify log write limits on Azure SQL Managed Instance using QPI library

Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure cloud. Managed Instance introduces some limits such as max log write throughput that can slow down your workload. In this post you will see how to identify write log throughput issue on Managed Instance.

What is subsetting, what are the advantages, and how does it make test data management easier?

As data grows and databases become larger and more complicated, data
subsetting provides a method of working with a smaller, lighter copy of a
database to make development and testing faster and easier.

In this article, James Hemson poses the questions; what exactly is data subsetting, how and why are developers using it – or not using it, and
what’s prompting conversations about it?