The Good The Bad and The SLA
Lets just get straight to the point, Azure SQL Database across all service tiers gives you the customer a SLA...
2018-08-20
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Arun Sirpal
SQL Reserved vCores
Have you ever heard of SQL Reserved vCores? Well I never until recently. With this concept you have the ability...
2018-08-16
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Azure SQL DW – Query Labels
Using a query label in Azure SQL DW (Data Warehouse) can be a really handy technique to track queries via...
2018-08-14
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Backups
Just because the cloud movement is strong doesn’t mean the end of “DBA’s”, it does mean a change in skills...
2018-08-07
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SQL Server – Blocking a Truncate
The truncate option is fast and efficient but did you know that it takes a certain lock where you could...
2018-07-31
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PsPing your Azure SQL Server
PsPing tool is part of the sysinternals PsTools download found – ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psping) This is the tool of choice when wanting to...
2018-07-23
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SQL Agent for Azure SQL Database? Not quite
The following post shows my preferred way to automate / schedule some code against my Azure SQL Database. No it is...
2018-07-16 (first published: 2018-07-09)
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Azure SQL Elastic Pools – Moving Databases
If you read official Microsoft documentation about naming conventions for your SQL elastic pools, it is hard to find any...
2018-07-09 (first published: 2018-07-02)
1,949 reads
Azure SQL DB – Login failed for user NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON.
Now that I have your attention with a powerful title how about some context? It is quite common to get...
2018-06-26 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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SQL Server 2017 – SELECT INTO [A SPECIFIC FILEGROUP]
Forget about Adaptive Query Processing for a minute, what other feature have I been waiting for? SELECT INTO a specific...
2018-06-19
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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