Export data from Cosmos DB to SQL Server
Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s latest NoSQL database offering low latency, high scalability and geo-distribution to any Azure region. Read Microsoft...
2018-04-29
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Blog Posts
Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Cosmos DB started as an internal project – “Project Florence” – at Microsoft in 2010. It is a...
2018-04-29
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SQL Server Minimum Memory Setting
There is almost never a reason to set this setting unless you’re running other apps on the same server as...
2018-04-29
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SQL Server Advanced Aggregations Part 2 ROLLUP and CUBE
This post is part 2 of a 3 part series…
Part 1 Grouping SetsPart 2 ROLLUP and CUBEPart 3 GROUPING and...
2018-04-28
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Backup VisualSVN using PowerShell
Quick and easy backup for VisualSVN. Wraps the svnadmin.exe and performs a hotcopy of all repositories in the $source_path, dumping them to the $backup_path [crayon-5c98d5a77e81c224584330/]
2018-04-27
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How to get alerted anytime SQL Service is restarted?
You may and should have monitoring in place to monitor state of your servers, services, jobs, critical and not critical...
2018-04-27
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Python Jupyter Notebooks in Azure
There’s a new feature in Azure, and I stumbled on it when someone posted a link on Twitter. Apologies, I...
2018-04-27 (first published: 2018-04-18)
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Top 5 Features of SysTools SQL LDF Recovery Software - Review
An SQL Server Expert Thoughts : I would like to recommend my readers to use SysTools SQL LDF recovery software for viewing transaction log file of SQL Server 2016,...
2018-04-27
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Top 5 Features of SysTools SQL LDF Recovery Software - Review
An SQL Server Expert Thoughts : I would like to recommend my readers to use SysTools SQL LDF recovery software for...
2018-04-27
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Why Don't I have a Preferred Replica?
The client reported that the log file on their main database was growing unusually large, and when they checked the...
2018-04-27 (first published: 2018-04-18)
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
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degree of parallelism
Team, I'm trying to figure out what will be the best recommendation to configure...
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A Fun Computer Quote
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