A new book is on its way
I am thrilled to announce that Microsoft Press (Pearson) has agreed to let us do another Inside Out book this year. This news is so fresh I haven’t even...
2022-03-23
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Blog Posts
Book Review – Mastering Snowflake Solutions: Supporting Analytics and Data Sharing
Disclaimer: Apress gave me a free copy of the book to review. People that know me, also know I always give honest feedback 🙂 I had the pleasure of...
2022-03-23
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Building Azure Redis Cache
Let’s go through a Redis build process. It will be fun. Within Azure find Redis / search for it. Fill in the basics (location should be where your app...
2022-03-23
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Daily Coping 23 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...
2022-03-23
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KQL and ADX – Is this really like SQL?
Hopefully, you’re aware that Azure Data Explorer can be accessed by anybody with a valid Microsoft Account Identity or MSA for short. If you need a one, then hop...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 1
(2022-Mar-04) Looking in the Oxford dictionary, Metadata can be described as "information that describes other information in order to help you understand or use it", as well as Pipeline is "a series...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-04)
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Daily Coping 22 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...
2022-03-22
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SQL Server Migration and Upgrade
(This post written by Jon Biggs (t), one of our Senior DBAs) We are currently performing migrations with upgrade of multiple-instance SQL Servers to new servers. The migrations are...
2022-03-22
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Azure Redis Cache Intro
Redis Cache is a well know caching technology and you can run it in Azure as a fully managed service. A common requirement (the most basic one) is doing...
2022-03-21
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Daily Coping 21 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...
2022-03-21
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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