Distributing Jupyter Notebooks

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

If you’re working with the Microsoft Data Platform, you should be, at the least, exploring Azure Data Studio as a new tool in your toolbox. One of the big...

2019-12-09

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State of Database DevOps Survey

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....

2019-12-06

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Containers: Upgrading SQL Server from 2017 to 2019 RTM

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

Throughout the pre-release of SQL Server 2019, I was demoing an effectively instant, and magical, container upgrade from 2017 to 2019. However, when I finally downloaded the release bits...

2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-25)

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Tracking CPU Use Over Time

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

A question that I’ve seen come up frequently just recently is, how to track CPU use over time. Further, like a disk filling up, people want to know how...

2019-12-02

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Your First Jupyter Notebook

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

In April, I said I was going to start learning Jupyter Notebooks. It’s November. Let’s get going with your first Jupyter Notebook. A quick aside before we start. I...

2019-11-28 (first published: 2019-11-19)

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Future Proof

• by Grant Fritchey

• SQLServerCentral

• Career

Grant has advice on how you can prepare your career for the future.

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2019-11-23

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Docker, Git and DBATools

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

For those who don’t know, last week was the PASS Summit. It’s an amazing event every year, but this last week, I saw a ton of indications that our...

2019-11-20 (first published: 2019-11-11)

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Every Execution Plan Is An Estimated Plan

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I consider myself to be the most responsible for making such a huge deal about the differences between what is labeled as an Estimated Plan and an Actual Plan....

2019-11-05 (first published: 2019-10-22)

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You Are A Coder

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

So, you say you’re a DBA. I say you’re not. You say you’re a system administrator. I say you’re wrong. We are all coders now. Every single one of...

2019-11-04

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Talk To Me At PASS Summit 2019

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I say this all the time, but shockingly few people take advantage. Say hi to me. Please. I’m going to be at PASS Summit next week. I’ll be presenting...

2019-11-01

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