A Quick Data Backup
The other day I was driving in the Tesla and clicked and Spotify application and chose a playlist. In this case, it was the “This is Stevie Wonder” playlist,...
2022-01-24
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Blog Posts
Bulk Insert – Insights That Will Make You Drool
Bulk insert can be an extremely helpful tool to help ingest data into SQL Server efficiently. Sometimes, it is necessary to capture metrics in regards to the bulk insert...
2022-01-24 (first published: 2022-01-07)
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Daily Coping 24 Jan 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...
2022-01-24
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Discovering diagram of dependencies in Synapse Analytics and ADF pipelines
Documenting objects dependencies of ETL processes is a tough task. Regardless it is SSIS, ADF, pipelines in Azure Synapse or other systems. The reasons for understanding the current solution...
2022-01-24
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Discovering diagram of dependencies in Synapse Analytics and ADF pipelines
Documenting objects dependencies of ETL processes is a tough task. Regardless it is SSIS, ADF, pipelines in Azure Synapse or other systems. The reasons for understanding the current solution...
2022-01-24
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Why Is “WHERE 1=0” Slow?
I saw a question the other day, questioning why they’re creation of temporary tables was so slow. What they were doing was (a much more complicated version of) this:...
2022-01-24 (first published: 2022-01-10)
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Data Thoughts – Microsoft Exams and Simulations
G’day, I’ve based my career around Microsoft products on the Data Platform. The first product that I seriously learnt was Microsoft SQL Server back around 2000. I was lucky...
2022-01-23
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Architecture – The Perfect Enemy
When I was younger, I always wanted the perfect solution to an IT problem. I remember getting into argument after argument trying to insist upon the perfect configuration, setup,...
2022-01-21 (first published: 2022-01-10)
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Daily Coping 21 Jan 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...
2022-01-21
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T-SQL Tuesday 146: Where should business logic reside?
I am trying to get started on blogging again this year…T-SQL Tuesday came in handy with a great topic. This month’s host is Andy Yun(t |b). Andy’s challenge for...
2022-01-21 (first published: 2022-01-11)
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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