Azure Synapse and Delta Lake
Many companies are seeing the value in collecting data to help them make better business decisions. When building a solution in Azure to collect the data, nearly everyone is...
2022-03-02
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 2 Mar 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...
2022-03-02
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Data Analysis Techniques
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-03-02
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Don’t change your default SQL Server port for security reasons
Since we’re on a recent theme of revising long-held best practices that are not, here’s a timely one for you: Don’t change your default SQL Server port for security...
2022-03-02
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Extended Events Session Properties
I like Extended Events and I regularly use the Session Properties window to create and explore sessions. I’m in the window all the time, noting it’s quirks & odd...
2022-03-02 (first published: 2022-02-15)
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Recipe 8: Analyzing a Workload
Welcome to a new recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-02
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Traveling to SQL Bits
I’m heading to SQL Bits this weekend, and will be in London most of next week for the conference. I’m excited. SQL Bits is my favorite conference, as I’ve...
2022-03-02
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Understanding Volumes vs Storage Pools
In hindsight, I should have done this differently. In a previous post I discussed how I carved up 18TB of storage into various storage pools. Now that I have...
2022-03-02 (first published: 2022-02-18)
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Daily Coping 1 Mar 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...
2022-03-01
11 reads
Goal Progress for Feb 2022
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022. February became more of a work month for me, and...
2022-03-01
12 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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