Instant File Initialization in SQL Server on Linux
Earlier this week Ned Otter (@NedOtter) brought up a question about Instant File Initialization on SQL Server on Linux, check out the thread here. I was up way too...
2017-09-23
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Blog Posts
SQL Server On Containers
On Sep 23rd 2.45 PM PST, I will be presenting 2 sessions on “SQL Server On Containers” @ at SQLSaturday San Diego, if...
2017-09-23
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How Do I Analyze a SQL Server Execution Plan?
A query is slow, and you figure out how to collect the query execution plan. Now what? In this video, I talk “big picture” about what execution plans are,...
2017-09-22
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How Mature are you in Database DevOps?
I remember seeing the Carnegie Mellon Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) when I was in university. It was fascinating, and...
2017-09-22
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How To Update Visual Studio 2017
(AKA how I lost a morning)
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This morning I needed to update my version of SSDT, but before I could do...
2017-09-22
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 2.2: The Rényi Entropy and Its Kin
By Steve Bolton
…………I kicked off this far-ranging series on using SQL Server to quantify information by discussing two of the...
2017-09-22
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Multi Script Removes 25 Database Limit
I woke up to a Slack message that alerted me to a post in one of our channels. An engineer...
2017-09-22 (first published: 2017-09-14)
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PASS Summit 2017 is Coming
The yearly PASS Summit is just around the corner, a little less than six weeks away. For those not familiar...
2017-09-22
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Restore BACPAC to SQL Azure
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2 posts in 1 day? When you’re hot, you’re hot!
I’m actually writing this one whilst I’m waiting for a BACPAC...
2017-09-22
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SQL Server: The danger of large data types
Databases are platforms that are designed to securely store and retrieve your data. Perhaps that’s why they’re called a data...
2017-09-22
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Blogs
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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