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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Blog Posts
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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SQLSat Baton Rouge 2023!
Looking forward to #jambalaya at #SQLSatBR on July 29! Register today: sqlsatbr.comI hope to see as many people as possible that weekend, I'll be there at the Friday night...
2023-07-22 (first published: 2023-07-21)
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A New Word: Ozurie
Ozurie – feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have. I think many people feel ozurie often. I certainly had a lot of this in...
2023-07-21
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Notes from SQLSaturday South Florida 2023
Quick notes on the event this year: Overall a good event and now I have a few months until SQLSaturday in Orlando in October.
2023-07-21 (first published: 2023-07-06)
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Statistics and the Ascending Key Problem
I’ve mentioned previously how not having up to date statistics can cause problems in query performance. This post looks at something called the Ascending Key Problem which can badly...
2023-07-21
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Volunteering at Work: Teaching Others
I give a few talks on career topics, and one of these is Branding Yourself for a Dream Job. In the talk, I sometimes tell a story in the...
2023-07-21 (first published: 2023-07-10)
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db_ddladmin Jr.
A while back I talked about the fact that you can grant someone CREATE PROCEDURE and ALTER on a schema ... Continue reading
2023-07-20
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Blogs
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
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