Moving SQL Server data between filegroups – Part 1 – Database Structures
Why is moving data between filegroups hard?
As a consultant its common to walk into a customer site and find databases...
2015-04-09
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Blog Posts
On Automation
I’m a big fan of automation. I’ve been in IT for 27 years now. One unchanging rule during that time...
2015-04-09
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SQL New Blogger Challenge Weekly Digest
Watching all of the tweets as people posted their first entries in the SQL New Blogger Challenge earlier this week, I quickly realized that keeping up was going to...
2015-04-09
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Storage Benchmarking with DiskSpd
As I mentioned in my storage benchmarking post, storage performance is one of the critical infrastructure components underneath a mission-critical...
2015-04-09 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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An Even Faster Method of Calculating the Median on a Partitioned Heap
Back in 2013 I wrote an article kindly accepted for publication on the Simple Talk web site called Calculating the...
2015-04-08
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Excel Tip #23: Adding a Trendline to Your Chart
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-03-31)
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Exploring AlwaysOn Availability Group Template in Azure
This is one of those posts which is due for a long time. I was really excited when Microsoft announced...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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How to Measure IO Latency for Database Files in SQL Server
In order to get information about the amounts of PHYSICAL reads we perform on database files, SQL Server exposes a...
2015-04-08
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How to move Resource DB in SQL Server ?
The Resource database is a read-only database that contains all the system objects. This DB included with SQL Server 2005 to increase security of system metadata. SQL Server system...
2015-04-08
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How to move Resource DB in SQL Server ?
The Resource database is a read-only database that contains all the system objects. This DB included with SQL Server 2005...
2015-04-08
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Blogs
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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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BIT_COUNT() V
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