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Bradley Ball is a Sr. Azure FastTrack Customer Engineer for Microsoft, and former Data Platform MVP. During his IT career Bradley has spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army, The Executive Office of the President of the United States for the Obama Administration, and is the former Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, now 3Cloud. He has presented at SQL Saturdays, SSUG's, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits, SQL Live 360, and the PASS Summit. Bradley co-hosts the Tales From The Field YouTube show https://aka.ms/TftF/youtube , he can also be found blogging on https://www.SQLBalls.com

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SQL Saturday Atlanta 2024

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Hey there happy coders! Last weekend I had the pleasure of speaking at the...

Test Data Management – 2024 is your year to do it

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This blog post is about Test Data Management – or my take on it....

The Redgate Seminar – Brisbane

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On Thursday, May 2, we have the Redgate Seminar in Brisbane. I’ll be at...

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What does it mean when Query Store Tracked Queries shows the same Plan Id twice?

By StarNamer

I'm investigating a query which sometimes performs badly and, when I locate one of...

Contained AGs user sync

By deubel_m

Hello everybody, I've read that contained AGs create copys of the system dbs which...

How best to identify one (and only one) default row in a table?

By julian.fletcher

We have a table with a numbers of rows in it. (Not that many...

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Reporting Services Editions

In which editions of SQL Server 2022 can you run Reporting Services?

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