Query Tuning and Easy Solutions
TLDR: There ain’t one. I was privileged last week to be able to present a couple of sessions at the SQL Server and Azure SQL Conference (great event, I...
2022-04-18 (first published: 2022-04-11)
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Blog Posts
Setting the Container Name–#SQLNewBlogger
I had started a Stairway series on containers (which I need to get back to), and I got a question. How do we set the name of a container?...
2022-04-18 (first published: 2022-04-11)
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Daily Coping 15 Apr 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...
2022-04-15
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KQL Series – quick intro to Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a PaaS offering from Azure providing an end-to-end solution for data exploration. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/individually-great-collectively-unmatched-announcing-updates-to-3-great-azure-data-services/ Here is a quick introduction of the features: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-explorer/#features This service from...
2022-04-15 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Talk to the duck.
Over the years, one of the best pieces of problem solving advice I’ve been able to give my kids is ... Continue reading
2022-04-15 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Azure Redis Commands
Now that we have created our Redis Cache lets connect to it. You can use the most common tool redis cli.exe https://redis.io/download or as I am going to do,...
2022-04-14
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Daily Coping 14 Apr 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...
2022-04-14
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Minimal blocking UPDATE statements
How to perform minimal blocking updates in a high concurrency environment
2022-04-14
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Book Review – Snowflake Security
When I was working with Snowflake on a project, it seemed security (assigning roles to users, assigning permissions etc.) is not as straight forward as it is in SQL...
2022-04-13 (first published: 2022-04-02)
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Choco upgrade, y’all
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, like the built-in package managers on Linux, and third-party ones on macOS like Homebrew and MacPorts. The idea is this: when you’re...
2022-04-13
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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Creating JSON II
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