Shutting down nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service

A while back I wrote a post on Adjusting Pod Eviction Timings in Kubernetes. To test the changes made in that post I had to shut down nodes in...

T-SQL Tuesday 151 Round up: Coding Standards

I received a great collection of blog posts in response to my T-SQL Tuesday 151 – asking people to write on T-SQL Coding Standards. Rob Farley (t|b) is of...

Goal Progress for June 2022

I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022. Ugh, June was no bueno for life goals. In May,...

Scary Scalar Functions - Part Two: Performance

Scary Scalar Functions series overview

Part One: Parallelism
Part Two: Performance

Foreword
In the second part of this series, we’ll look at how Scalar functions (or UDFs) affect performance.
If you want to follow...

Daily Coping 1 Jul 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Refreshing Tables in Data Masker

Data Masker for SQL Server is a product that helps to change data for compliance purposes. It works well, but it isn’t intuitive in a few ways. We bought...

Setting up MinIO for SQL Server 2022 s3 Object Storage Integration

Introduction In this post, I will walk you through how to set up MinIO, so you can use it to work with SQL Server 2022’s s3 object integrations. Working...

Updates from Coping Tips

I’ve written a lot of coping tips now. Over two years worth (Mon-Fri) since the pandemic began. It’s become an interesting thing to do on a regular basis, making...

Using Sessionize for Your User Group – Part 2

Now that your CFS has been setup it’s time to get the word out first. There are many ways to this. I start with using the Cfs secret page...

Daily Coping 30 Jun 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...