Daily Coping 22 Feb 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...
2022-02-22
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Blog Posts
Help, not all of my column is displaying in the output of the query!
I’ll be honest, I don’t remember if I’ve written about this before but I couldn’t find it, so here we ... Continue reading
2022-02-22
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Speaking at Techorama 2022
I’ve received some good news: Techorama is back with an in-person conference! I’m selected as a speaker and I’ll be talking about Azure Data Factory. Azure Data Factory (ADF)...
2022-02-22
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10 DBA recipes with XESmartTarget
Some time ago, I started a project called XESmartTarget. I find it super useful and you should probably know about it. It’s totally my fault if you’re not using...
2022-02-21
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Creating a distributed Service Broker application with Docker
As you might know, I have written a long time ago a book about Service Broker – a technology within SQL Server that almost nobody is aware of and...
2022-02-21 (first published: 2022-02-07)
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Daily Coping 21 Feb 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...
2022-02-21
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Getting a Day Difference in PowerShell–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. SSMS froze on me the other day. Actually,...
2022-02-21
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Query Your Statistics: dm_db_stats_properties
We’ve always been able to look at statistics with DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS. You can even tell SHOW_STATISTICS to only give you the properties, STAT_HEADER, or histogram, HISTOGRAM. However, it’s always...
2022-02-21 (first published: 2022-02-07)
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A Hard Drive Retrospective – SQL Server Edition
Sometimes it’s good to look back and appreciate what we have and how far we’ve come. This applies to many things, but today I’m talking about the humble hard...
2022-02-18 (first published: 2022-02-06)
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Cluster Service Failed To Bring Clustered Role Online Or Offline
This weekend I was working, as usual, holding the on-call and listening to my favorite singer Kishor Kumar. And, my friend Rakesh call me in jeopardy. One of his...
2022-02-18
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Blogs
On Speaking Well
By Brian Kelley
Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to...
Monday Monitor Tips: Oracle Custom Metrics
By Steve Jones
One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add...
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Forums
Analysis of Locking Issues on Secondary Replicas in AlwaysOn Availability Groups
We have an AlwaysOn architecture with four replicas: two running in synchronous commit mode...
The Vector Data Type
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What Power BI DirectQuery does to your SQL Server (and how to fix it)
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The Vector Data Type
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