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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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The On-Call Load

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Two Table Hints

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Database Dashboards in Azure Data Studio

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Question of the Day

Two Table Hints

What happens when I run this code:

SELECT
  p.ProductName
, p.ProductCategory
FROM dbo.Product AS p WITH (NOLOCK, TABLOCK);

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