Security: Create and view Audit Logs
It is important to have a secure environment, enforcing the least privilege principle in your servers and databases, but this...
2018-04-30
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Blog Posts
Shiny Tech Syndrome
This is the name I give to anyone who, whilst learning a new technology, suddenly thinks it’s the best thing...
2018-04-30
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SQL Server Removing Outliers With Standard Deviation
When running aggregations for reporting in some situations outliers can throw out the numbers.
For example lets say we have a...
2018-04-30
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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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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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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198–Change Detection
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, Meagan Longoria, who graciously agreed to help...
Redgate and Rome
By Steve Jones
I’m at the UK Redgate office today, meeting with senior leaders in all areas...
Quick Tip: Check Most DTU Expensive Queries in Azure SQL Database
Optimizing Azure SQL Database performance often begins with identifying the most resource-intensive queries. Understanding...
Forums
Permissions Removal When Changing Object Schema
When the schema of an object is changed, SQL Server wipes out the previous...
SSRS Is Dead. Here Are Your Real Options
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The Distance Metric
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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