It's all about Customer Service
Grant Fritchey on the lessons all DBAs can learn from the recent Public Relations disaster for United Airlines.
2017-04-24
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Grant Fritchey
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The Age of Data and Software Development
I am so excited to be a data professional in the modern era. Yeah, 15-20 years ago, it was cool...
2017-04-17
412 reads
Alerts From Azure Automation
In a previous post, I showed how to set up statistics maintenance for your Azure databases using Azure Automation. However,...
2017-04-04
634 reads
Learning Azure From The Web
I’m working on a technical blog post that I hope to be putting up soon. I’ve run into a number...
2017-04-03
428 reads
Random Blogging Challenge Results
The winner is: Everyone.
Hey, the challenge was random. I didn’t promise a prize or a winner. Instead, I suggested everyone...
2017-03-29
647 reads
Sharing With You In All Fifty States
I made a mistake the other day. For some reason I got it into my head that I was flying...
2017-03-28
449 reads
Why You Should Change the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
I’ve written several times about the Cost Threshold for Parallelism and it’s relationship to your execution plans, how to determine...
2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-13)
3,078 reads
Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps
I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.
I...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-07)
1,839 reads
SQL Clone and a Little Competition
Redgate has released a new product, SQL Clone. I’ve already talked about how excited I am about it. Now, it’s...
2017-03-13 (first published: 2017-03-06)
1,755 reads
Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
In the previous post, I showed how you can get full listings of your execution plan costs. Knowing what the...
2017-03-09 (first published: 2017-02-28)
1,961 reads
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