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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Blog Posts
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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Daily Coping 18 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...
2022-02-18
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Who do you contact before an upgrade? : T-SQL Tuesday #147
I haven’t been blogging as much recently as I’d like and I’m trying to get back into it. One excellent ... Continue reading
2022-02-18 (first published: 2022-02-09)
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Blogs
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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