Failover Groups for Managed Instances
If you have been following me for a while you will know that I really like the Fail over groups within Azure SQL DB and it is no different...
2021-11-22
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Blog Posts
Reading Data from the Command Line in PowerShell–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. In every language I’ve coded in, there is...
2021-11-22
96 reads
SQL Server 2022 is coming
SQL Server 2022 is still in private preview (Microsoft MVP folks have access to it), but you can now read about the new release before it is released: SQL...
2021-11-22
191 reads
SQL Server 2022 is coming
SQL Server 2022 is still in private preview (Microsoft MVP folks have access to it), but you can now read about the new release before it is released: SQL...
2021-11-22
2 reads
STRING_SPLIT Has Ordinals
I noticed the docs for STRING_SPLIT now show that there is a third parameter. This brings us an ordinal for the positioning of the data. The format is now:...
2021-11-22 (first published: 2021-11-17)
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Daily Coping 19 Nov 2021
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...
2021-11-19
40 reads
My PASS Data Community Summit 2021 Speaking Experience
If you’d asked me 5 years ago if I would ever speak at Summit, I’d have said “no way, not possible.” I didn’t even think I was able to...
2021-11-19
7 reads
Notes on the 2021 PASS Summit
I attended the three main days this year and wrote notes as I went. As I sat down to type them up I started by going back to look...
2021-11-19 (first published: 2021-11-14)
335 reads
Power BI Adding Translations to Rename Columns – XMLA, TOM, C#
If you are new to using C# and the Tabular Object Model (TOM), please check out the previous blog post (https://dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/power-bi-meets-programmability-tom-xmla-and-c/) for both an introduction to the topic and...
2021-11-19 (first published: 2021-11-12)
252 reads
Daily Coping 18 Nov 2021
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...
2021-11-18
11 reads
Blogs
Enterprise AI Operating Rhythm – Top 5 practices for 2026
2025 exposed a growing gap between AI ambition and operational reality. As budgets tightened...
Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets
By John
When organizations migrate workloads to Azure, the focus is usually on architecture, performance, and...
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
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The Max PK Length
If I create a multiple column Primary Key constraint, what is the most number of bytes I can include in the constraint?
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