Log Analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics
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 Azure Synapse Analytics
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
41 reads
Log Analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics
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
83 reads
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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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
18 reads
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
14 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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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Fabric a Reliable Service...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers