Writing most of this Monday afternoon while on lunch break. I’m attending the Advanced T-SQL Querying and Query Tuning pre-con by Itzik Ben-Gan. You access pre-cons via the Virtual...
2020-11-10
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I’m in learning mode this week, scheduled for two full day pre-cons plus the Summit. I’ve been to a couple of virtual events already this year, but they were...
2020-11-09
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It’s just over 30 days to the 2020 PASS Summit and that is plenty of time to get the boss to say yes, but you have to ask! I...
2020-10-14 (first published: 2020-10-05)
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I know that we don’t yet know how the 2020 Summit will turn out, but I’ll make some guesses: A lot of people like it for the lower cost,...
2020-08-18 (first published: 2020-08-05)
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Some thoughts on the PASS Virtual Summit this year: Clearly the in-person option wasn’t doable. Just too hard to know infection rate, local rules, employer travel guidelines, attendee and...
2020-07-31 (first published: 2020-07-17)
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I’m sure it’s no surprise, but we’ve decided to cancel SQLSaturday Orlando 2020. We decided a couple weeks ago but it’s been tough to summon the energy to write...
2020-07-17
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I’ve gathered a bunch of notes from conversations and time reflecting, thought I’d write them down to at least be able to look back at them once the storm...
2020-04-04
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We’ve cancelled our upcoming Meetups in April and May due the loss of our venue (due to corona virus worries) though we would have probably cancelled them anyway. Our...
2020-03-16
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The notes! Attendance was the speaker dinner was great! Always nice to have a lot of people there. During the day logistics all went well, though it’s still a...
2020-03-08
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One the things I’ve been doing over the last year is sending out a monthly reminder email of upcoming events. Not revolutionary, I know. I’m sharing what we do...
2020-01-30 (first published: 2020-01-22)
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Today I was having a nice discussion with some colleagues about Fabric and pricing/licensing...
By Steve Jones
As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated...
By James Serra
Starting last week is a rollout of the public preview of a new and...
By Stewart "Arturius" Campbell
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Read Only Replica in SQL...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in...
I've had some backups of my encrypted databases failing with the error "BACKUP 'DBName'...
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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