Using Pester with Get-DbaLastGoodCheckDb from dbatools
In my last post I showed Get-DbaLastGoodCheckDb from dbatools. This module is a community based project written by excellent, brilliant...
2017-04-06
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Blog Posts
[Video] JSON Usage and Performance in SQL Server 2016
Last night I had the privilege to present to the Ohio North SQL Server User Group about JSON in SQL Server 2016. There was a great crowd present (they...
2017-04-05
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ADO Connection Resiliency
It’s not easy to keep up with tech, here’s an update I missed – you can add params to the connection...
2017-04-05
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Among Giants
Since becoming a Database Administrator I’ve always looked at Microsoft MVP’s as the giants in our field. I never once...
2017-04-05
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Columnstore Indexes – part 103 (“Partitioning 2016 vs Partitioning 2014”)
Continuation from the previous 94 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
I have been wanting to write on...
2017-04-05
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Connecting a powershell session to a container
One of the questions that I was asked at SQL Saturday Iceland was “how can I view the filesystem within...
2017-04-05
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Connecting a powershell session to a container
One of the questions that I was asked at SQL Saturday Iceland was “how can I view the filesystem within...
2017-04-05
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Creating a list of random numbers
I was working on a blog post this weekend that required a list of random numbers. Now, this isn’t exactly...
2017-04-05 (first published: 2017-03-22)
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Getting SQLServers Last Known Good DBCC Checkdb with PowerShell and dbatools
As good SQL Server DBA’s we want to ensure that our databases are regularly checked for consistency by running DBCC...
2017-04-05
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How do I change the increment of an identity column?
Wellll .. technically there is no native way to do it. I even went through my notes on identity columns. No...
2017-04-05
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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...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers