Webinar Series – SQL Server Indexing
I’m starting a webinar series about SQL Server indexing with the fine folks of MSSQLTips.com. Each “episode” will be about 30 minutes long and will feature a certain topic...
2026-03-17
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I’m starting a webinar series about SQL Server indexing with the fine folks of MSSQLTips.com. Each “episode” will be about 30 minutes long and will feature a certain topic...
2026-03-17
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Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure Data Factory instance (or Azure Synapse Pipelines) and you have a couple of linked services...
2026-03-11 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during debugging with a BadRequest error, even though it validates successfully. If you’re wondering, this is...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at dataMinds Saturday. It’s a topic close to my heart, and I’ve always wanted to present...
2026-02-20
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I’m not trying to start up a debate whether you should use tabs or spaces when indenting code. Personally, I prefer spaces because when I copy the code to...
2026-01-30 (first published: 2026-01-19)
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Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be downloaded. Well, it cannot be downloaded from the user interface, that is. Suppose you have...
2025-11-26 (first published: 2025-11-06)
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The Power BI Enhanced Report Format (PBIR) will soon become the default, and that’s a good thing because it significantly makes git integration easier. You can already enable it...
2025-11-20 (first published: 2025-11-18)
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Quite a long title for a short blog post ??While deploying a DACPAC (from a SQL Server Data Tools Database Project) through Azure Devops, I got the following error...
2025-11-16 (first published: 2025-11-14)
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You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that was presented at the dataMinds Connect 2025 conference at GitHub.
The post dataMinds Connect 2025 –...
2025-10-08
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The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be found on Github.
The post Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts first...
2025-09-25
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One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced in cloud operations is maintaining clear visibility...
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I come to Heathrow often. Today is likely somewhere close to 60 trips to...
By Brian Kelley
If your organization is spending money, then meaningful results are a must. Pen testing...
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I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers