Quick Database Copies and Branching with Spawn
I delivered a talk last week at the Future Data Driven summit. It’s one I’ve done a few times, but I really enjoy it. It’s on the Future of...
2021-10-15 (first published: 2021-10-04)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 14 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...
2021-10-14
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Connect Excel to a Power BI Dataset in a Premium Workspace with a B2B User
Power BI offers the ability for users who have access to a dataset in the Power BI service (PowerBI.com) to connect to the dataset using Excel. Normally, this feature...
2021-10-13 (first published: 2021-09-30)
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Daily Coping 13 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...
2021-10-13
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Power BI: Adding Columns to a Published Data Model using the XMLA Endpoint & TMSL
Goal of this demo: Update a Power BI model schema by adding a column to the data model without opening a PBIX file and ensure the scheduled refresh still...
2021-10-13 (first published: 2021-10-01)
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Redgate’s Pre-con at the 2021 PASS Data Community Summit
I was fortunate to present a pre-con at the PASS Summit alongside Kendra Little in 2019. That was the last in person event, and I really enjoyed the session....
2021-10-13
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SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more)
Yesterday, I had about 30 existing queries (and some multi-query processes) that I needed to turn into individual stored procedures. […]
The post SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and...
2021-10-13
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System-versioned ledger tables: things you can’t do
This is the third post in the series about system-versioned ledger tables, a new feature introduced in Azure SQL Database. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 if...
2021-10-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #143 – Short Code
I’m late, but I wanted to get this out. I started the post, then got distracted with travel to Europe late last week. In any case, this month the...
2021-10-13
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3 Important Queries for Testing Your Availability Group Endpoints
In this article, I have shown the importance of performing three different validation tests against your Availability Group Endpoints. Each test also demonstrates what can be run in the...
2021-10-12
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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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