Powershell Goodies
If you haven’t seen some of the other blog post, or the Microsoft Powershell Blog, Microsoft recently release Script Browser for...
2014-04-25
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Blog Posts
Reblog: April 18 to April 24
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-04-25
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Why does my Failover Cluster Instance Keep Failing Back and Forth?
A few months ago I was paged by a client because their SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) was experiencing...
2014-04-25 (first published: 2014-04-17)
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Another Question Of the Day
Yesterday I submitted a new question of the day based on the best idea generator you can find – something that...
2014-04-24
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Journey of an On-Premises DB to Azure VM – SQL Server 2014 makes it easier!
SQL Server 2014 is deeply integrated with Windows Microsoft Azure and moving an On-prem database to a Microsoft Azure VM...
2014-04-24 (first published: 2014-04-16)
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Microsoft Azure Automation
Microsoft just announced a new mechanism for managing your Azure resources, Automation. You can check out the documentation on it...
2014-04-24 (first published: 2014-04-16)
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Techfuse, a New Laptop, and How Microsoft Azure Helped Save the Day
On Tuesday, April 22, I had the opportunity to speak at the Techfuse conference in Minneapolis. I was presenting a...
2014-04-24
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Azure Automation
I introduced Azure Automation in a previous post. I’ve spent some more time exploring it.
There’s a set of documentation available...
2014-04-23
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Collation: Confusion
I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...
2014-04-23
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FileTable–Adding a file to a folder
At my Filestream/Filetable talk yesterday at SQL Intersection, someone asked me about programmatically adding a file to a Filetable. Easy...
2014-04-23 (first published: 2014-04-16)
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Blogs
PostgreSQL: Diagnosing and Fixing a Sequential Scan with No Filter Predicate
A sequential scan is not always a problem — PostgreSQL's planner often chooses one...
Giving AI Agents Visibility Into SQL Server with MCP
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an...
The Book of Redgate: Profits
By Steve Jones
Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling...
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