How to Grant Permissions Only on the Replica in Database Mirroring and AlwaysOn AG
You work with Database Mirroring or AlwaysOn AG, and you want to make sure your end users work only on...
2016-03-03
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Things I learned in 2015
Happy 2016!
I continue my tradition of summarizing the things I learned in the past year (as a reminder, here’s what...
2016-01-25
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How to Solve the Tail Insert Problem
In the previous post, we talked about when you should use identity/sequence as a clustered index key and when it’s...
2016-01-19
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When Should You Use Identity as a Clustered Index Key?
A few days ago, while delivering my session, The Data-Loading Performance Presentation, I was asked when, performance-wise, Identity should be...
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-16)
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My PASS Summit 2015 Recap
A few days ago I returned from PASS Summit 2015 (and a vacation I took afterwards). Here’s my recap: I...
2015-11-22
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Scripts and Slide Deck: The Data Loading Performance Presentation at PASS Summit
I have just finished delivering my session, The Data Loading Performance Presentation at PASS Summit 2015. It went very well,...
2015-10-30
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Things You Need To Know about Nolock
Nolock is not the Satan, but no an angel too
Surfing the web you will find articles saying that Nolock is...
2015-10-26
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Database Mirroring Isn’t Going Anywhere
AlwaysOn Availability Groups is a great technology that centralizes the management of High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Scale-Out. However, in...
2015-09-24
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Oslo
This weekend, I’ll hop on a plane and fly over to Norway for SQLSaturday Oslo.
I’ll be delivering a session I...
2015-08-26
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Why You Should Care About Microsoft APS and Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Last week, I gave a presentation about SQL Server’s data warehouse capabilities, and specifically about APS (Analytics Platform System) and...
2015-08-19
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
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SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
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Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
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Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
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Representing Money
Which types of currency does the money data type represent?
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