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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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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Administration

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Hello Dear Reader! Last September I was approached with a tremendous opportunity to become the Managing Author for the Professional...

2014-09-12

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24 Hours of PASS Preview: Zero to Hero (I'm the Zero)

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Hello Dear Reader! We are already away into the 24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview for 2014! I don't know...

2014-09-09

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Why You Should Go to SQL Saturday

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SQL Sat Puerto RicoHello Dear Reader! Soon SQL Saturday #318 in Orlando FL will be here. The SQL Community does...

2014-09-04

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Deck & Demo's Live & Thank You AZSSUG & OPASS!

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Hello Dear Reader! Just a quick post to say Thank You to the Arizona SQL Server User Group and to...

2014-06-27

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It's not Business, It's Personal

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Hello Dear Reader. I find myself at this late hour unable to sleep. Yesterday the slate of speakers for the...

2014-06-26

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Introducing What_To_Compress V2

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Hello Dear Reader! I'm about 32,000 feet in the air leaving St. Louis after a great Performance Tuning Workshop for...

2014-05-29 (first published: 2014-05-22)

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Decks & Demos Live

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Hello Dear Reader! Just a quick update. I've been traveling a lot and I'm behind in posting some Decks & Demos....

2014-04-30

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Up Coming Speaking Events

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Hello Dear Reader! We are 2 months into 2014 and the New Year is off to a busy start. This...

2014-02-21

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Windows 2012 for the SQL DBA: .NET 3.5 Fails to Install

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Hello Dear Reader! I know it has been a while since last we spoke. Sorry for the long absence. I've...

2014-02-19

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Tales from the Query Processor: II

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Hello Dear Reader! Today is Halloween, October 31st. My Daughter turns a big 15 today! Happy Birthday Ches!!!!!
To celebrate two...

2013-10-31

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Blogs

Use a slicer to filter a visual based upon a measure in Power BI

By Meagan Longoria

Have you ever wanted to filter a visual by selecting a range of values...

Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the...

Microsoft Fabric shortcuts

I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the...

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Forums

Truncate tables where Referential Integrity exists

By Perry Whittle

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Truncate tables where Referential Integrity...

Blocking question

Hi all, We have a SSIS package that does 2 things in parallel: moves...

can I monitor auto stats updates through extended events?

We have pretty big tables very sensitive to stats with many updates. Our systems...

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Question of the Day

Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database

I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?

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