PASS Data Community Summit 2022
As I write this, it’s the weekeend before PASS Data Community Summit 2022 and depending upon when I finish, it’ll post either shortly before SQL Saturday Oregon, or in...
2022-11-12
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Blog Posts
Cloning in Snowflake
Cloning is a powerful feature within snowflake (also known as zero copy clone). You can obviously clone at the database or schema level but also tables too. It’s a...
2022-11-11
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Create Service Principal Names Along with a Managed Service Account
In a few previous articles, I have talked a lot about Managed Service Accounts (MSA) and Service Principal Names (SPN) and given examples of managing the separately. As a...
2022-11-11 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Daily Coping Tip 11 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make a list of new things you want to do before the end of the year. Hmm, definitely some things to do, but what’s...
2022-11-11
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I'm speaking at PASS Data Community Summit 2022
Looking forward to speaking in Seattle at next week's PASS Data Community Summit by Redgate. I'll be speaking both as a representative of my role on the Microsoft Database...
2022-11-11
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Improved data loads from Snowflake to Azure Synapse Analytics
My responsibilities revolve around providing the business with the data they need to make informed business decisions. One of those processes requires us to shift data from a Snowflake...
2022-11-11 (first published: 2022-10-30)
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Off to the Summit and SQL Saturday Oregon
I’m traveling this morning. My second to last trip of the year, and another long one. Today through the 20th I’ll be in Portland and Seattle. First is Portland,...
2022-11-11
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Setting up my new workstation with some Chocolatey goodness.
As you might be aware I started a new job last week. Which means a new workstation and installing lots ... Continue reading
2022-11-11
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SQL Server 2022 Query Performance Tuning
If you’re interested in getting a digital copy, my brand spanking new book is now available here. It’s in the intro, but let me tell you a little bit...
2022-11-11
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Attending and presenting at conferences
I have attended and presented at a ton of conferences over the years (see the entire list at Presentations | James Serra’s Blog). If you are looking to learn...
2022-11-10
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Blogs
Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse
By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
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