Azure SQL Database - Implementing Azure AD Authentication
Marcin Policht focuses on the specifics of using Azure Active Directory to authenticate to Azure SQL Database.
2016-11-10
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Additional Articles
Find and Remove Duplicate Rows from a SQL Server Table
Though duplicate rows are bad practice, sometimes they're necessary for a short time. But how do you clean your tables when they're no longer needed? Sergey Gigoyan provides a few different solutions.
2016-11-09
3,155 reads
SQL Server Timeouts During Backups and CHECKDB
So you’re hosting your SQL Server in the cloud, and you’ve noticed that when you’re running a backup or a DBCC CHECKDB, you suffer from extreme performance problems - what's going on? Brent Ozar explains.
2016-11-08
3,699 reads
Power BI for Data Modelling
Power BI has a lot of uses, but one of the most interesting of them is to model and shape data to make it easier for self-service BI. Power BI is a full-stack solution that includes data loading, data modelling, metrics, reporting and distribution. It can take the source data, and perform in-process data modelling relatively easily as well a providing an easy to use and powerful user interface for analytics and reporting.
2016-11-07
4,912 reads
Is JavaScript Single-Threaded?
Developing JavaScript for web pages can be perplexing. You will get errors that seem to make no sense, You will be given nuggets of advice about how and when you can use JavaScript to manipulate the DOM or make Ajax requests. It is far better to understand the reason for these rules; the single-threaded nature of JavaScript, and how it loads the page and manages the event loop. How can you achieve parallel processing and what is the best way? Igor makes it all clear and obvious.
2016-11-04
3,714 reads
Set Statistics… Profile?
Erik Darling looks at SET STATISTICS TIME ON and SET STATISTICS IO ON as potential tools for troubleshooting a query.
2016-11-03
3,174 reads
List and Execute SQL Server Stored Procedures with PowerShell
Stored procedures allow the DBA to automate a certain task by bundling up a query and executing as a single set of logic. This is considerable progress in including more automation, but why not automate the automation? Adam Bertram explains how.
2016-11-02
4,333 reads
Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Explaining the Architecture Through System Views
The architecture of Azure SQL Data Warehouse isn't easy to explain briefly, but if you have some useful queries that access the management and catalog views, and diagrams that show how they relate together, you can very quickly get a feel for what is going on under the hood. By using and extending these queries that use these views, you can check on a variety waits, blocking, status, table distribution and data movement in ASDW.
2016-11-01
3,226 reads
Reading Backup History Information for a Database
There are times when you might want to read backup/restore history information to identify a backup’s start and finish date/time, the location where the backup was written, the size of the database backup, etc. Greg Larsen shows you how to do this in SQL Server.
2016-10-31
4,425 reads
SQL Server 2016 DBCC CHECKDB with MAXDOP
Ahmad Yaseen explains how you can control the number of processors assigned to the SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB command in order to free-up the server's resources.
2016-10-28
3,392 reads
Blogs
Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
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A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI
By Arun Sirpal
AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but...
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