Conditionally Retry a Failed Job
We have jobs that run in the early morning to load data to our data warehouses and other systems, and...
2017-07-03 (first published: 2017-06-23)
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Blog Posts
Creating the SSIS Catalog
If you are building SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, using the SSIS catalog as a deployment target is usually...
2017-07-03
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Database Mirroring Needs FQDNs
A quick basic post, and one that I’ve forgotten. Since blogging is a good way to remind myself of things,...
2017-07-03
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Monday Coffee: Alerts & Checks
Hope you all had a good weekend, the Lions won so I’m pretty happy.
Over the weekend I was thinking about...
2017-07-03
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SQL Homework – July 2017
For years Russ Thomas (b/t) has done a Monthly DBA Challenge and in fact I’ve used it as insperation a...
2017-07-03
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SQL Server Database Files Wise I/O Latency Details PART#1
One of the real-world I/O troubleshooting problems is – If you have your databases spread across multiple LUNs and you want...
2017-07-03 (first published: 2017-06-26)
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Creating a PowerShell Module and TDD for Get-SQLDiagRecommendations
Yesterday I introduced the first command in the SQLDiagAPI module. A module to consume the SQL Diagnostics API.
I have been...
2017-06-30
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Friday Reading 2017-06-30
Second test for the British & Irish Lions tomorrow, they need this one to keep the series alive. I’ll be up...
2017-06-30
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Implementing Fuzzy Sets in SQL Server, Part 11: Fuzzy Addenda
By Steve Bolton
…………One of the key reasons I looked into the topic of fuzzy sets in the first place was...
2017-06-30
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SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals on UserGroup.tv
You can now watch my presentation on SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals from SQLSaturday Houston 2017 on UserGroup.tv, a...
2017-06-30
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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....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
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...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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