ETL Antipattern: Ignoring the “Why?”
In this final post in my ETL Antipatterns series, I’ll talk about a common big-picture mistake when building ETL processes: ignoring the fundamental question, “why are we doing this?”...
2020-12-22
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Blog Posts
ETL Antipattern: Ignoring the “Why?”
In this final post in my ETL Antipatterns series, I’ll talk about a common big-picture mistake when building ETL processes: ignoring the fundamental question, “why are we doing this?”...
2020-12-22
15 reads
Find columns with NULL values across the table
Recently, I was working on one of the performance tuning assignment with an esteemed client. The size of their databases were growing tremendously. Growth in the database size is...
2020-12-22 (first published: 2020-12-11)
626 reads
Getting Started Reading Execution Plans: Highest Cost Operator
Reading execution plans in SQL Server is just hard. There’s a lot to learn and understand. I previously outlined the basics I use to get started when I’m looking...
2020-12-22 (first published: 2020-12-14)
663 reads
Top 3 Upgrade & Migration Mistakes
This is a guest post by another friend of Dallas DBAs – Brendan Mason (L|T) Upgrading and migrating databases can be a daunting exercise if it’s not something you...
2020-12-22
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Daily Coping 21 Dec 2020
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...
2020-12-21
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ETL Antipattern: Ignore the Logging
In my last ETL Antipatterns post, I wrote about the unexciting but very necessary work of documenting ETL processes. The logging of ETL operations is just as (un)captivating as...
2020-12-21
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ETL Antipattern: Ignore the Logging
In my last ETL Antipatterns post, I wrote about the unexciting but very necessary work of documenting ETL processes. The logging of ETL operations is just as (un)captivating as...
2020-12-21
27 reads
Introduction to SQL Server Query Store
Introduced with SQL 2016, Query Store was, probably without doubt, the most anticipated and talked out new feature. In this post we'll just take a brief look at it,...
2020-12-21 (first published: 2020-12-14)
936 reads
Toolbox - When Intellisense Doesn't See Your New Object
I was just working on a new SQL job, and part of creating the job was adding a few new tables to our DBA maintenance database to hold data...
2020-12-21 (first published: 2020-12-11)
506 reads
Blogs
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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Converting Money
Does this run successfully on a SQL Server 2022, US English default installation?
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