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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Blog Posts
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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Creating a Self Referencing FK in a CREATE Statement–#SQLNewBlogger
I had written about a FK in a CREATE TABLE statement recently, but the second half of this was that after the original question, the person asked if this...
2023-11-24 (first published: 2023-11-06)
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
Let's Talk Community Events!
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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