In-Memory OLTP: Part 2 – Indexes
Following on from In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction where we created a database capable of hosting memory optimised tables, I’d...
2015-04-13
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Blog Posts
Introduction to Wait Statistics in SQL Server
In today’s blog posting I want to talk more about the Wait Statistics in SQL Server and how they can...
2015-04-13
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Patching Master Data Services
I recently installed my first deployment of Master Data Services (MDS). I installed the SQL Server 2014 (Enterprise Edition) MDS...
2015-04-13
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Database Compatibility Level 101
Each SQL Server database has a setting called Compatibility Level that determines how T-SQL commands are interpreted and what features...
2015-04-12
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SQL Server 2014 Upgrade Sessions on the Microsoft Virtual Academy
It was a great honor to be asked to join my associates from SolidQ at the Microsoft Virtual Academy Studios...
2015-04-12
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SQL Server 2014 Upgrade Sessions on the Microsoft Virtual Academy
It was a great honor to be asked to join my associates from SolidQ at the Microsoft Virtual Academy Studios...
2015-04-12
174 reads
A full day with me, SSIS, and Edgar Allan Poe
When I think about Baltimore, I think about Edgar Allan Poe. Baltimore was Poe’s one-time home, and in fact there...
2015-04-10
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Big Data Hackathon in Microsoft Canada: Power Map will find your way!
Big Data, what a term! Some people instantly think of a huge sometimes cumbersome volume of information, others define it...
2015-04-10
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2015-04-10
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I Am Grateful For
I decided in January that I would write regularly about people that I’m grateful for. Now it’s April. Oops.
The concepts...
2015-04-10
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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