Advice for 2023 PASS Data Community Summit Attendees
Edwin Sarmiento has a great First Timer Guide for the PASS Data Community Summit, which is updated for 2023. He’s been compiling this since 2016, and it’s worth reading....
2023-11-09
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Blog Posts
Database Concerns – A Poll!
What are you most concerned about in your database platforms? Please pick from the list below, and expand on your choice in the comments if you like: Thanks...
2023-11-08 (first published: 2023-10-25)
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My data architecture book now has 15 chapters available!
Only one more chapter to go! As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title...
2023-11-08 (first published: 2023-10-23)
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All the chapters in my data architecture book are now available!
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-11-06
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 6
In SQL Server, there are various scenarios in which you may want to consider recompiling a query or a stored procedure to ensure optimal query performance. Recompilation generates a...
2023-11-06 (first published: 2023-10-23)
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Setup Ola Index Maintenance with Azure Runbooks and Terraform
Yes, you still need to do some work to maintain indexes in Azure SQL Database. This post will walk you through setting up statistic updates and index maintenance using...
2023-11-06 (first published: 2023-10-19)
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Last Weeks Reading (2023-11-05)
📰 News Process Azure Event Hubs data using Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows Read how to process Azure Event Hubs data using ADF for certain use cases. Automate...
2023-11-05
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A New Word: Zielschmerz
zielschmerz – n. the dread of pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer...
2023-11-03
124 reads
Deleting a Git Branch–#SQLNewBlogger
I had someone ask me recently about deleting branches. While I had known how to delete a local branch, I had to look up how to delete a remote...
2023-11-03 (first published: 2023-10-23)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Seeing Pending Migrations
I find that quite a few people using Flyway will end up with a lot of migration scripts over time. While you can certainly re-baseline and split scripts into...
2023-11-03
33 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Availability Groups
By Kevin3NF
Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups...
Modify Power BI page visibility and active status with Semantic Link Labs
Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...
T-SQL Tuesday #190–Mastering a New Technical Skill
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great...
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Using table variables in T-SQL
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