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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Blog Posts
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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Learn High Availability and Disaster Recovery with SQL Server in a Day!
If you are near Pittsburgh, PA on May 22, 2014 catch the following all-day training session from 8:30 AM to 4:00...
2014-04-23
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MDX # 39 – Find Default Measure using MDX Query
In Chapter 1 of our book, MDX with SSAS 2012, we’ve devoted a section “Setting a default member of a...
2014-04-23 (first published: 2014-04-15)
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Practical Data Migration Strategies
Practical Data Migration Strategies
As organizations mature their IT infrastructure must change to keep up with new applications and technologies. Many...
2014-04-23
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SQL Server Partitioning 101
I’ve worked with partitioning for quite some time now, and though it has been around for quite some time and lots has been written about the concept I recently...
2014-04-23
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SQLSaturday #305 Dallas Business Analytics Edition
I am excited about being selected to speak and attend the May 3rd SQLSaturday BA Edition in Dallas, TX. There...
2014-04-23
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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