Database maintenance is crucial for the health and performance of any database system, including those in Azure. Without regular maintenance, databases can become slow, unstable, and prone to crashes...
2023-06-07 (first published: 2023-05-08)
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This book will provide you with a good foundation upon which a consistent convention for practicing your day-to-day operations can have a solid footing in your database discipline, with...
2023-06-07 (first published: 2023-05-20)
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Script to identify the most expensive queries on your database server using the Query Store DMVs. This allows you to look at data from a specific time frame, as...
2023-06-07
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In this post we're going to go through the steps to set up Always Encrypted and create an encrypted column. As with my last post we're looking at the...
2023-06-06
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At Tuesday 6th of June 2023, I’m giving an online version of my session “Analyzing Azure Cosmos DB Data with Azure Synapse Link” (which I presented at Techorama). It’s...
2023-06-05
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Unlike TDE, there is some extra CPU overhead when you take an encrypted backup as the data has to be encrypted before being written to disk – whereas with...
2023-06-05 (first published: 2023-05-22)
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Recently I was doing a cleanup of one model, and I used Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) in Tabular Editor as a helper. Later, I realized I forgot to set...
2023-06-05 (first published: 2023-05-22)
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jouska – a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head – a crisp analysis, a devastating comeback, a cathartic heart-to-heart – which serves as a kind...
2023-06-02
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The invitation this month for #PGSqlPhriday comes from Dian Fay. The topic is pretty simple, database change management. Now, I may have, once or twice, spoken about database change...
2023-06-02
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I wrote recently about finding multiple backups in a file. This post looks at how to restore one of those. The one you choose. Another post for me that...
2023-06-02 (first published: 2023-05-17)
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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)If you run SQL Server...
By Chris Yates
Change is inevitable. What separates thriving organizations from those that falter is not the...
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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;