SQL Agent job history on a Managed Instance
The defaults for saving SQL Agent Job history are ok (at best), so you should probably check and update them ... Continue reading
2023-08-09 (first published: 2023-07-25)
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Blog Posts
AWS RDS SQL Server Announcements - 2022 & 2023
RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Local Time ZonesAmazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU21Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports self-managed Active DirectoryAmazon RDS...
2023-08-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #165–Job Titles
This T-SQL Tuesday is from a new host, Josephine Bush, leader of the Boulder group just North of me. It’s an interesting invitation, asking what our job titles really...
2023-08-08
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100 Days to the Data Community Summit Keynote
The start of learning at the 2023 PASS Data Community Summit is 100 days away. I checked. The Summit starts for many of us on Monday with precons or...
2023-08-07
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Azure DevOps: Enterprise Power BI report deployment with connections to Shared datasets
(2023-July-15) Let's say you have a collection of Power BI .pbix files stored in a git-based source control system (GitHub, Azure DevOps, or any other system). Among these files, one...
2023-08-07 (first published: 2023-07-15)
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Enhancements I’d Like to See in the Power BI Treemap Visual
I recently created a treemap in Power BI for a Workout Wednesday challenge. Originally, I had set out to make a different treemap, but I ran into some limitations...
2023-08-07 (first published: 2023-07-14)
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A New Word: Idlewild
idlewild – adj. feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can’t do much of anything, which temporarily alleviates the burden of being able to do anything...
2023-08-04
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Altering the Default Schema for a User
I had to test something for a customer, and as a part of this there as a need to have a different default schema for a user. I wrote...
2023-08-04 (first published: 2023-07-19)
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Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse vs Warehouse video
Since Microsoft Fabric became available, I blogged about it and have an introduction video on Fabric that you can view here. I wanted to follow up with a short 30-minute video...
2023-08-04 (first published: 2023-07-18)
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Things I Carry in My Travel Bag
A friend asked me for some travel tips and ideas recently. One of their questions was on what types of things do I actually carry on the road, both...
2023-08-03
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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