Log Analytics with Dedicated SQL Pools (Formerly SQL DW)
There are a lot of services in Azure. Way more than a few. What is something you want to do with all your services and applications? You want to...
2021-11-01
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Blog Posts
Log Analytics with Dedicated SQL Pools (Formerly SQL DW)
There are a lot of services in Azure. Way more than a few. What is something you want to do with all your services and applications? You want to...
2021-11-01
15 reads
Skirmishes with automated deployment of Azure Data Factory
When it comes to Azure Data Factory deployment, I always have a few words to say. You might be aware that there are two approaches in this terms. I...
2021-11-01
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Daily Coping 29 Oct 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...
2021-10-29
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External Temp Tables Preventing Plan Reuse in Stored Procedures
Here’s an interesting issue that recently came up. We were seeing very high compilations and recompilations on a server to the point that it started causing us some very...
2021-10-29 (first published: 2021-10-19)
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Group By Starting Characters
I was chatting with Jeff (b|t) on my team yesterday and the context escapes me but I had this thought: “Can you Group By the beginning characters, or a...
2021-10-29 (first published: 2021-10-22)
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The First Live SQL Saturday in 2021
I’m getting ready to board a plane now, heading to Orlando for the first live SQL Saturday in 2021. I’m excited and looking forward to seeing friends that I’ve...
2021-10-29
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Daily Coping 28 Oct 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...
2021-10-28
12 reads
Daily Coping 27 Oct 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...
2021-10-27
17 reads
Lesson Learned From Multi-Threading with dbatools
Over the summer, I spent some (a lot of) time working on updates to a script at work which runs multiple processes in parallel. Everything seemed to work OK...
2021-10-27
8 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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