I’m back! I’m still a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. And other minor life updates.
I stopped blogging late last year. I’ll be honest, I was tired. I had decided to take a month or ... Continue reading
2023-07-27
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Blog Posts
Code that made you feel a certain way : T-SQL Tuesday #164
It’s been a while, but I’m finally participating in T-SQL Tuesday again! This month Erik Darling (blog|twitter) is hosting. Ever ... Continue reading
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #164: Code that makes you feel
The invitation this month is from Erik Darling, and it’s a neat one. I like this thought, asking us to find code that impressed us or made us feel...
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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100 Blog Posts Milestone
Good morning dear reader, Long time no talk. It has been a jam-packed and chaotic first half of 2023 for my family and me. The first quarter of the...
2023-07-25
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Test Restore Your SQL Server Databases
Pain Point: Something bad happened and you need to restore a SQL Server database. Pain Point you didn’t know you had: The backup files are all corrupt due a...
2023-07-25
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A Security Change with SQL Compare 15
Actually, this is a change for many products and software that connects to SQL Server. Updated drivers require us to now decide to trust the server certificate. I opened...
2023-07-24
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Early Bird Pricing for the Data Community Summit Ends Jul 26
The early bird pricing for the PASS Data Community Summit ends this week, on Jul 26. After that, there is a bump, so let you boss know this is...
2023-07-24
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Microsoft Fabric
What will be much easier with Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Fabric is built on a foundation of Software as a Service (SaaS), which takes simplicity and integration to a whole new...
2023-07-24 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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Wait a minute, CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE indexes are not ordered?
Just to reiterate what's in the title of this post, what I mean is that the CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE indexes are not ordered, while NONCLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE created indexes are on...
2023-07-24 (first published: 2023-07-05)
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..And The New Adventure Has Begun
I am so happy to announce that I have joined the team at Fortified Data. I have just completed my first week (well, four days) and I feel like...
2023-07-23
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
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Be Wary of Data
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;