Thank You–#PASSElections
This week has been a whirlwind; as the results came in earlier this week on the election I wanted to...
2017-09-28
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Blog Posts
Compañero Conference and SQL Modernization Roadshow
October is a busy month for me. I am flying all over the US and Canada for speaking engagements to...
2017-09-27
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Concatenation Truncation – Are your strings being truncated?
It wasn’t until recently that i paid attention to truncation during concatenation, but that’s because whenever I used concatenation before...
2017-09-27
1,226 reads
Error – Unable to retrieve child resources in Azure Storage Explorer
Hello friends, Please find the link of this article here – https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/40188.error-unable-to-retrieve-child-resources-in-azure-storage-explorer.aspx
2017-09-27
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Hmmm… What’s This?
OK So, I am doing some digging and peaking around again in SQL Server and came across a database option...
2017-09-27 (first published: 2017-09-20)
2,051 reads
SQL Puzzle – Prime Numbers
My goal here is to have something fun (and hopefully educational/thinky) (and yes, I did just make up the word...
2017-09-27
462 reads
TSQL2sDay – Get-PostRoundup
First an apology, this round up is late!
The reason for that is an error in the PowerShell testing module Pester...
2017-09-27 (first published: 2017-09-20)
1,069 reads
Clustered vs Nonclustered: Index Fundamentals You Need To Know
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on UnsplashHow many times have you known that adding an index would improve query performance but you weren’t exactly sure which type of...
2017-09-26
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Clustered vs Nonclustered: Index Fundamentals You Need To Know
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
How many times have you known that adding an index would improve query performance but you weren't exactly sure which type of index to add?
This happened to me all the time...
2017-09-26
12 reads
DELETE data on SQL Server HEAP table - Did you know...
Before I complete my question let me provide context.
I’ve received an alert saying that a specific database could not allocate a new page (disk was full)
The message that you...
2017-09-26
24 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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