Daily Coping 14 Jul 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...
2022-07-14
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 13 Jul 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...
2022-07-13
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EightKB August 2022
EightkB is back! Today we announced the schedule for the next EightKB, which is happening at 1pm UTC on the 3rd of August. We have five more amazing, mind-melting...
2022-07-13
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Including reference data into a database deployment process or passing lookup tables to Production
(2022-Jun-20) As it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a team to develop a good SQL Server database project. Previous efforts to maintain manual or custom SQL...
2022-07-13 (first published: 2022-06-20)
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Snowflake Editions
You have decided that snowflake is the technology you want to use to build your next gen data platform, you have decided your cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP) then...
2022-07-13
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Top 5 SQL Server VM Performance Tuning Tips – Webinar Jul 21
You’re invited! I’m thrilled to be co-presenting a session on the top five SQL Server virtual machine performance tuning tips with our friends at Sanity Solutions on July 21st...
2022-07-13 (first published: 2022-06-25)
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T-SQL Tuesday #152 – It Depends – Manager’s Access
Deb Melkin (b | t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and is letting us rant. Who doesn’t like to rant about databases and the famous “it depends”. She...
2022-07-13 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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Daily Coping 12 Jul 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...
2022-07-12
19 reads
SQL Server Partitioning for Performance
Often enough I get questions regarding partitioning to try to help alleviate performance issues with very large tables. A common misconception is that due to the table being large,...
2022-07-12
40 reads
Thank You Allen!
I know I can say that I’m a friend of Allen White without getting into trouble. Allen and I have a shared a lot of things over the years...
2022-07-12
110 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 3: Happy...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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