Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 3
Sorry to disappoint you. In this post, we won't test Microsoft Fabric directly. We will compare Azure Data Factory (ADF) to Microsoft...
2023-11-30
Blog Posts
Cosmos DB – Monitoring performance
Cosmos DB has become my latest focus and I hope to start sharing more about ways you can use it. Cosmos DB doesn’t provide the same granularity of query...
2023-11-29 (first published: 2023-11-15)
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Is that the right question to ask?
This is not a “clickbait” title, but an important consideration when it comes to developing technical solutions. Let me give you an example between two questions for SQL Server...
2023-11-29 (first published: 2023-11-17)
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SQL Prompt Tips–Using $surroundtext$ in a Snippet
A user on the SQL Community Slack was asking about what the $surroundtext$ variable. This post looks at how this can be used in snippets. This is part of...
2023-11-29
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Force parameterization is powerful-feature
Force parameterization in Microsoft SQL Server is a feature designed to optimize query performance by converting literal values in Transact-SQL statements into parameters. This process helps in plan reuse,...
2023-11-27 (first published: 2023-11-13)
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Giving a Security Webinar this Wednesday
If you haven’t already signed up, on November 29, 2023, at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time, I’m presenting a webinar on how to harden SQL Server. Link to Register...
2023-11-27
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Part 1: The Modern Azure Data Warehouse – Choosing The Tech
With reports hitting the transactional databases, we were encountering performance issues. We needed to choose a path forward that would lighten the load on the prod database servers and...
2023-11-27 (first published: 2023-11-16)
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VMUG Ireland End of Year Event
This Thursday, November 30th, is the next VMUG Ireland event…our end of year social meetup! We’re going to be down in BrewDog Dublin: – THREE LOCKS SQUARE, 4, DUBLIN...
2023-11-27
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Last Weeks Reading (2023-11-26)
📰 News Deploy a Delta Sharing Server on Azure Want to learn how to deploy a DeltaSharing server on Azure, but don’t know where to begin? Why Structured Streaming...
2023-11-26
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A New Word: Emodox
emodox – someone whose mood is perpetually out of sync with everyone else around them, prone to feelings of naptime panic, heart-to-heart snark, or dance club pensiveness. I had...
2023-11-24
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Blogs
On Speaking Well
By Brian Kelley
Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to...
Monday Monitor Tips: Oracle Custom Metrics
By Steve Jones
One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add...
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Forums
Troubleshooting WQL in custom PBM conditions?
Hi, I'm currently trying to implement policy based mgmt with a condition to query...
Analysis of Locking Issues on Secondary Replicas in AlwaysOn Availability Groups
We have an AlwaysOn architecture with four replicas: two running in synchronous commit mode...
The Vector Data Type
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The Vector Data Type
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