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
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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