Azure Purview Best Practice: Naming your scans
If you’ve ever been a DBA and seen the mess that you get with SQL Agent Jobs without a clean naming standard for your job schedules and job names...
2021-09-06 (first published: 2021-08-13)
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Daniel Janik
Using PyApacheAtlas to import SQL Server extended properties to Azure Purview
Azure Purview is a compliance and data governance platform in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The platform is currently in public preview and has quite a few features; but, does not...
2021-09-01 (first published: 2021-08-11)
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Migrating from SQL Server to Amazon AWS Aurora
Is Microsoft’s licensing scheme getting you down? It’s 2020 and there are now plenty of data platforms that are good for running your enterprise data workloads. Amazon’s Aurora PaaS...
2020-12-16 (first published: 2020-12-07)
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AWS Community Builders #AWSCommunity
I’m excited and happy to announce that I’m part of the AWS Community Builders. Check out more on Twitter with the #AWScommunity tag. To learn more about the program...
2020-07-31
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Running SQL Server in Google Cloud Platform
On a few occasions I’ve referred to GCP (Google Cloud Platform) as the “Windows Phone of cloud providers” and what I meant by that is they have a great...
2020-07-15 (first published: 2020-07-06)
359 reads
Living in the new normal as a data engineer
For the past few months most of the world has been in quarantine and you may think that this is the new normal, especially now that “re-opening” has been...
2020-06-28
117 reads
SQL 2019 UDF (User defined function) inlining
SQL Server 2019 brings a lot of great new features. Many are introduced by the IQP (Intelligent Query Processing) features and greatly improve query performance. Some time ago I...
2020-06-24 (first published: 2020-06-09)
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SQL Server 2019 CU5 is out
Earlier this week Microsoft released the latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2019 and as you can expect there are quite a few items addressed including a fix for...
2020-06-24
8 reads
Weekend Cloud Comic
I got a mailer for “The Container Store” this week and thought of the following scenario so I figured I’d hand-draw a comic to lighten your weekend. Enjoy!
2020-06-20
4 reads
Which Azure Data Platform service should I choose?
So you’ve decided to use Azure for your existing or new data project? This blog series is focused on choosing the right technology for your project. It’s tough right?...
2020-05-28 (first published: 2020-05-17)
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Blogs
Power BI Meets Programmability – TOM, XMLA, and C#
By DataOnWheels
For anyone who read the title of this and immediately thought, “Oh no, I...
Do Full Backups Break Log Shipping?
By Kevin3NF
TLDR: Nope. Keep on doing your full backups. Make sure that any databases you...
Daily Coping 15 Oct 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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Disabling all access to the server
Hello everyone! We have a small group of users (4) using MS Access 2000...
How to remove data and index fragmentation in a table
The picture is showing the results that I used sp_spaceused for OldTable and NewTable,...
Database Recovery but DB is 7GB and log file is almost 3
I have had a server crash and although I was able to recover the...
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