Passed DP-900–A Review
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-02-07
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Blog Posts
Which Columns Are Looked Up?
A common issue in performance is the lookup, key or RID, but the question frequently asked is, which columns are looked up? You need to know in order to...
2022-02-07 (first published: 2022-01-24)
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Daily Coping 4 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...
2022-02-04
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Goal Progress for Jan 2022
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022. My first update. I spent most of January unwinding slightly...
2022-02-04
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How SQL Server executes a Query
Beginning with today, I want to give you over the next few months a blog post series about the basics of performance tuning in SQL Server. Before we go...
2022-02-04 (first published: 2022-01-25)
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I'm Speaking at SQLBits 2022!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQLBits! I had the absolute pleasure of speaking at SQLBits in the past, both in person and virtual, and...
2022-02-04
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Introducing ScriptDOM
I’ve been meaning to get a series of blog posts started on this topic. A twitter conversation from yesterday finally pushed me to it. Last year, I was tasked...
2022-02-04 (first published: 2022-01-24)
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Connecting to Single Server MySQL
We have already created the server now it’s time to connect to it. What you will need – connection string details, correct networking setup and a tool like MySQL...
2022-02-03
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Daily Coping 3 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...
2022-02-03
10 reads
How to get Change Data Capture to work in an Availability Group
If you’ve ever had to implement Change Data Capture (CDC) for a database in an Availability Group, then you know that the CDC jobs don’t really consider the Availability...
2022-02-03
147 reads
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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