If you happen to be using C# there is a very easy way to set your application up to take advantage of Read-Only replicas.
Using this connection string: (Some portions...
2023-09-27 (first published: 2023-09-18)
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Microsoft SQL Server, like most modern database systems, can convert a query into a set of parallel instructions to improve efficiency. This is map-reduce before map-reduce was a popular...
2023-09-08 (first published: 2023-09-06)
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I thought I might pass along, what I have found to be, the most efficient way to validate the check digit within Azure SQL Server. I was looking to...
2023-07-17 (first published: 2023-07-10)
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We have very large Analysis Services(SSAS) cubes with billions of records and hundreds of users so we need to be able to monitor the performance of queries. 95% of...
2023-05-29 (first published: 2023-05-17)
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In publishing, and Im sure many other industries, we get data at both the daily level and the weekly level. To properly tie these two pieces of data you...
2022-11-16 (first published: 2022-11-05)
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My responsibilities revolve around providing the business with the data they need to make informed business decisions. One of those processes requires us to shift data from a Snowflake...
2022-11-11 (first published: 2022-10-30)
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With the release of composite models in PowerBI, Ive been able to solve a long-standing issue with SQL Server Analysis Services: text search performance. In this article I am...
2022-10-28 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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I'm excited to be presenting my talk on Building a complete API in Azure
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-20)
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I've decided to move my blog here. You'll see some old content being uploaded in the next few days. Look around, I hope you find some tidbits of information.
Older...
2022-10-17
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I have a video detailing how to use Managed Identities to authenticate function apps in Azure.
2020-10-26
By Steve Jones
I saw someone limit the databases they see in SSMS, which isn’t something I...
Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking...
By Steve Jones
My slides are here: VCS Primer Denver 2023 This was an overview of what...
Hi We have an stored procedure which runs frequently and it contain logic in...
Hi I am new to replication and we have database of size around 2TB...
I want to query a table that has a datetime column ([CreateDateTime]) and get...
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