What’s next III
In case you didn’t know I was given notice about a month and a half ago. Since I’ve talked about ... Continue reading
2022-08-04
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 3 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-03
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EXECUTE AS USER vs EXECUTE AS LOGIN
I use impersonation a lot. It’s a really easy way to check if someone has the permissions they are supposed ... Continue reading
2022-08-03 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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Power BI: Data Quality Checks Using Python & SQL
Picture this, you have a report in Power BI that someone passes off to you for data quality checks. There are a few ways to make sure your measures...
2022-08-03 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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Daily Coping 2 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-02
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Free Webinar – T-SQL Best Practices and Tuning for the BI/DWH Developer
I’m giving a free webinar for MSSQLTips.com at 11th of August 2022. The abstract: When building a data warehouse (DWH) in the Microsoft Data Platform stack, you typically have...
2022-08-02
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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge is back!
Looking forward to jambalaya at #SQLSatBR in THIS SATURDAY! Also looking forward to speaking and seeing all of you there, I guess... Register today: https://sqlsaturday.com/2022-08-06-sqlsaturday1026/After I stepped down from the...
2022-08-02 (first published: 2022-08-01)
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Thank You Andy!
I remember going into Andy Leonard’s session at PASS Summit in Denver. I’m not going to lie, it was kind of sparsely attended, so I got to sit up...
2022-08-02
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Azure DevOps: Merging code to Main branch from a specific branch only
(2022-July-25) I really liked reading printed PC Magazines (https://www.pcmag.com/) or Computerworld newspapers (https://www.computerworld.com/) when I was in school. Those magazines pictured IT System or Database Admins as a special group...
2022-08-01 (first published: 2022-07-25)
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Daily Coping 1 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-01
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Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you’ve been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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