When should I add an index?
We all know indexes are good and I’m hoping everyone knows you can have too many indexes. That means we...
2017-04-21 (first published: 2017-04-19)
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Blog Posts
Microsoft Data Amp event announcements
Yesterday was the Microsoft Data Amp event where a bunch of very exciting announcements were made:
SQL Server vNext CTP 2.0...
2017-04-20
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Resolution to “Connection Timeout Expired. [Pre-Login] initialization =18090; handshake=14281” error
This blog post is about a SQL Server connection issue that presents itself:
We were building an Availability Group (AG) at...
2017-04-20
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What Exactly is the “Data Platform” Nowadays?
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
A couple of months ago I was presenting at SQL Saturday Melbourne (582) on Azure Cognitive...
2017-04-20 (first published: 2017-04-18)
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What is SQL Server?
I’ve been playing around with YouTube, making some tutorial videos on SQL Server and it’s been a fun process so...
2017-04-20
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PASS BA Marathon – Spring Edition Q&A
The PASS BA Marathon Spring Edition was quite a success. A lot of people tuned in (over 400), the webinar...
2017-04-19
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Presenting 2 sessions @ SQLSaturday (Silicon Valley)
Apr 22nd I will be presenting “Re-Indexing – The quest of ultimate automation” & “Consolidated Essential Performance Health Check using PowerShell” @ SQLSaturday, Silicon...
2017-04-19
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SQL Saturday Chattanooga 2017
Second of the year, I will be presenting at SQL Saturday Chattanooga 2017. Come see my SQL Server 2017 (Linux and Beyond) session
2017-04-19
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SQL Security Email Course
Today I am very excited to announce that I have (finally!) launched my email course covering the basics of SQL...
2017-04-19
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SQL Server 2017 is coming
It’s official: the next version of SQL Server, planned to be released this year, will be called SQL Server 2017....
2017-04-19
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Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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