Join me next week at my first GroupBy session
2021 has been the year people want to learn about Temporal Tables, it seems. Not only am I speaking at the SQL Trail conference next week, but I was...
2021-10-20
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Blog Posts
Updated Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress
My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress” is now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer...
2021-10-20
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Using SQL Data Compare with Joins
Recently a customer was asking about how they could move data with SQL Data Compare from one server to another. In this case, the customer had a complex join...
2021-10-20 (first published: 2021-10-04)
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Commenting a branching IF-THEN-ELSE.
I’m a big fan of comments (MSSQL, Powershell), so along those lines here’s an interesting way to comment an IF-THEN-ELSE ... Continue reading
2021-10-19
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Daily Coping 19 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...
2021-10-19
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A DBA horror story in database file extensions.
CREATE DATABASE [Story]
ON PRIMARY
( NAME = N'Story', FILENAME = N'C:DataStory.mdf',SIZE = 101MB),
FILEGROUP [Line1]
( NAME = N'File1', FILENAME = N'C:Data_.It',SIZE = 102MB),
( NAME =...
2021-10-18 (first published: 2021-09-30)
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Daily Coping 18 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...
2021-10-18
19 reads
My new Online Training: SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals – German Edition
As we all know there is already a lot of information available about SQL Server related topics in English. But I’m also dealing more and more with customers who...
2021-10-18
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My new Online Training: SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals – German Edition
As we all know there is already a lot of information available about SQL Server related topics in English. But I’m also dealing more and more with customers who...
2021-10-18
50 reads
My new Online Training: SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals – German Edition
As we all know there is already a lot of information available about SQL Server related topics in English. But I’m also dealing more and more with customers who...
2021-10-18
6 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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The Vector Data Type
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