SQL Server Replication snapshot initialization taking long time to be applied
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In today's post I want to share a tip that helped me troubleshoot an issue I was facing and...
2017-08-25
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Blog Posts
Bad Parameter Sniffing Decision Flow Chart
Lots of people are confused by how to deal with bad parameter sniffing when it occurs. In an effort to...
2017-08-24 (first published: 2017-08-15)
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Data Virtualization vs Data Warehouse
Data virtualization goes by a lot of different names: logical data warehouse, data federation, virtual database, and decentralized data warehouse....
2017-08-24
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Randomness in Security Configuration
We were deploying a new web service. Because of the nature of the service, we wanted it to listen on...
2017-08-24 (first published: 2017-08-14)
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Always Encrypted with Azure Key Vault
I recently wrote a post about using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Azure Key Vault as an alternative to managing...
2017-08-23 (first published: 2017-08-15)
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Automatic Sample Sizes for Statistics Updates
I mentioned in my previous post about manually updating statistics that you can specify whether they’re updated using a full...
2017-08-23 (first published: 2017-08-15)
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I’m Speaking at Ignite in Orlando!
I’m excited to say that I will be speaking at Ignite this year in Orlando! I was at Ignite in Atlanta last year and it was an excellent experience....
2017-08-23
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I’m Speaking at Ignite in Orlando!
I’m excited to say that I will be speaking at Ignite this year in Orlando! I was at Ignite in Atlanta last year and it was an excellent experience....
2017-08-23
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I’m Speaking at Ignite in Orlando!
I’m excited to say that I will be speaking at Ignite this year in Orlando! I was at Ignite in Atlanta last year and it was an excellent experience....
2017-08-23
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I’m Speaking at Ignite in Orlando!
I’m excited to say that I will be speaking at Ignite this year in Orlando!
I was at Ignite in Atlanta...
2017-08-23
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
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....
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Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
BIT_COUNT() V
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers