Daniel Janik

Daniel Janik has been supporting SQL Server for 18 years as a DBA, developer, architect, and consultant. He spent six years at Microsoft Corporation supporting SQL Server as a Senior Premier Field Engineer (PFE) where he supported over 287 different clients with both reactive and proactive database needs. Daniel has spoken at several SQL Saturday events across the US and Caribbean and regularly speaks at PASS local chapters.

STORPORT: Reading an ETL trace

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

One of the things I enjoy most is diagnosing storage latency. I honestly couldn’t tell you why I enjoy it...

2018-03-05 (first published: 2018-02-19)

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SQL Saturday Chicago: I’m speaking

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

If you’re in Chicago on March 17 and have some free time, why not check out all the cool kids?...

2018-02-19

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PaaS and the ever changing role of the DBA

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

I’ve never been a fan of a GUI for DBA work. Give me a hand crafted script or a list...

2017-12-26 (first published: 2017-12-12)

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How to be a successful innovator

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

Let’s say you have some obscure list of career goals for the year and one of those is to be...

2017-11-09

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Always update your views

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

I last posted about changing a table without changing a view that represents the table and how this may affect...

2017-10-03

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Don’t forget to drop your views

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

I had a fairly puzzling issue today, which took a few minutes to figure out. Some time ago I created...

2017-10-02 (first published: 2017-09-25)

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SQL Server: The danger of large data types

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

Databases are platforms that are designed to securely store and retrieve your data. Perhaps that’s why they’re called a data...

2017-09-22

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Offtopic: Lifehack: Old tech has many purposes

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

For those that don’t know, I live in Texas. Been here all my life. There are two main things north...

2017-09-15 (first published: 2017-09-11)

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SQL Server: SARGability part 2

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

In case you missed the first post on this topic, you can read it here: SQL Server: SARGability. This post...

2017-09-12 (first published: 2017-09-07)

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SQL Server vs Oracle: Substring

by Daniel Janik

Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

Continuing the comparison between these two database giants, we dive into the substring function. If you’ve been working with databases...

2017-09-05 (first published: 2017-08-23)

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Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime

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This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...

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Hyperscale Replicas V

I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?

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