Redgate Alexa Contest Winners!
A couple of weeks ago we had a small contest here to pick a skill for Alexa. The entries were...
2017-05-05
482 reads
Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
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Food On Your Table
I was asked, “Who here thinks that PASS helps people put food on the table?” To my shame, I initially...
2017-04-25
401 reads
It's all about Customer Service
Grant Fritchey on the lessons all DBAs can learn from the recent Public Relations disaster for United Airlines.
2017-04-24
90 reads
The Age of Data and Software Development
I am so excited to be a data professional in the modern era. Yeah, 15-20 years ago, it was cool...
2017-04-17
412 reads
Alerts From Azure Automation
In a previous post, I showed how to set up statistics maintenance for your Azure databases using Azure Automation. However,...
2017-04-04
637 reads
Learning Azure From The Web
I’m working on a technical blog post that I hope to be putting up soon. I’ve run into a number...
2017-04-03
428 reads
Random Blogging Challenge Results
The winner is: Everyone.
Hey, the challenge was random. I didn’t promise a prize or a winner. Instead, I suggested everyone...
2017-03-29
648 reads
Sharing With You In All Fifty States
I made a mistake the other day. For some reason I got it into my head that I was flying...
2017-03-28
449 reads
Why You Should Change the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
I’ve written several times about the Cost Threshold for Parallelism and it’s relationship to your execution plans, how to determine...
2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-13)
3,115 reads
Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps
I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.
I...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-07)
1,841 reads
Blogs
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
SQL Server gMSA: Why So Many DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026
By SQLPals
SQL Server gMSA: Why DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026 ...
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
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Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
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Database Mail Configuration
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Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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