Gerard

With over 20 years of experience in the data & analytics space, I’ve helped many customers architect, design and implement modern, cloud data platforms to turn data into a strategic advantage.

I specialise in Microsoft’s suite of data technologies, both in Azure and on-premise. I have however worked with many other vendor products over the years. I have successfully delivered multiple solutions leveraging technologies including but not limited to; Azure Data Factory v2, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Analysis Services, Power BI, Azure SQL Database, Azure Batch and various flavours of IaaS workloads in hybrid environments.

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A New Word: Flichtish

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flichtish – adj. nervously aware how much of your self-image is based on untested...

Automating Container Image Builds with Docker Build Cloud and Github Actions

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In a previous post we went through how to use Docker Build Cloud to...

The Ireland and UK DevOps Roadshow

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We’re taking the roadshow across the water. Hope the plane makes it. The Redgate...

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Linked Server Product Name?

By Brandie Tarvin

Just came across something weird. Was wondering if anyone else has ever seen this....

Can index fragmentation cause the database to enter suspect mode?

By IT researcher

My database was in suspect mode, and when I checked using DBCC CHECKDB, it...

Creating Statistics on XML

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Question of the Day

Creating Statistics on XML

I have a table in SQL Server 2022 that is an XML data type. I have an index on this column and want to create statistics using CREATE STATISTICS for some of the data in the column. What should I do?

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