Why my way of writing SQL is superior
⚠️ It’s hard to convey sarcasm over the text. I’m putting this disclaimer at the top so I don’t come off egoistic. This post is meant as hyperbole, and...
2022-04-13
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 12 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...
2022-04-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #149 – T-SQL Advice you’d give to your younger self
It’s the second Tuesday of the month, so it’s time for the T-SQL Tuesday blog party! This month’s topic is chosen by Camila Henrique (blog): what T-SQL advice would...
2022-04-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #149–Advice about T-SQL to a Younger Me
It’s that time of the month again, when we have the T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month we have a new host, Camilia Henrique with an invitation on advice...
2022-04-12
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Webinar – Intro to Azure Data Factory
I’m excited to announce I’m giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com, with “Introduction to Azure Data Factory” as the subject. The webinar will take place at Tuesday May the 3th,...
2022-04-12
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Azure IoT Central
This is a short blog to give you a high-level overview on a product called Azure IoT Central. I saw this fairly new Azure product (GA Sept 2018) in...
2022-04-11 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Daily Coping 11 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...
2022-04-11
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KQL Series – how not to waste $ running ADX clusters
This blog post is based on my personal experience running an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. I was doing a presentation for Data Platform Summit in India, I spun...
2022-04-11 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Query Hash and Query Plan Hash Mapping
The problem
As a fan of Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs), Query Store and Extended Events, I often work with the Query Hash and Query Plan Hash (I’ll refer to them...
2022-04-11
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Daily Coping 8 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...
2022-04-08
30 reads
Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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