SQL Server 2017 DMVs and DMFs for DBAs
Dynamic management views (DMVs) and dynamic management functions (DMFs) are system views and system functions that return metadata of the system...
2018-01-17
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Blog Posts
Statistics Use, Extended Events and Execution Plans
Query tuning ain’t easy.
Figuring out which index is getting used is one step, and generally simple, look at the execution...
2018-01-17 (first published: 2018-01-08)
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Using Windows stored credentials to connect to SQL in containers
I work with SQL Server in containers pretty much exclusively when testing code and one of my real bug bears...
2018-01-17
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Assign a keyboard shortcut to menu items (Day 16)
You may have noticed that there are many menu commands that don’t have a keyboard shortcut. For instance, SQLCMD mode...
2018-01-16
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Assign a keyboard shortcut to menu items (Day 16)
You may have noticed that there are many menu commands that don’t have a keyboard shortcut. For instance, SQLCMD mode...
2018-01-16
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Azure Portal – Bad Request
I had a strange issue recently when trying to login to the Azure Portal. Quite simply I would enter my...
2018-01-16
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Azure SQL Database – Optimizing For Ad-hoc Workloads
Today I found out that it is now possible to enable the setting optimize for ad-hoc workloads at the database...
2018-01-16 (first published: 2018-01-08)
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Checking the Health of your CLR
Having a tool to be able to monitor CLR health will be essential as you deploy more and more managed code within SQL Server. Extended Events offers a great...
2018-01-16
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Checking the Health of your CLR
The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is the fundamental nerve center of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is this nerve center that...
2018-01-16
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Deploy Dacpacs with dbatools – The Script!
Hello!
Not so long ago, I wrote about how dbatools now has functions that can be used to deploy dacpacs. What...
2018-01-16
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Blogs
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
By DataOnWheels
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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