Power BI Data Viz Makeover: From Drab to Fab
On July 11 at 3pm MDT, Rob Farley and I will be hosting a webinar on report design in Power BI. We will take a report that does not...
2020-06-18
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Blog Posts
Secure Your Data Prep Area
I’ve been building ETL processes for many years, and I’ve learned two universal truths: data preparation is messy, and you must always secure your data prep area. A data...
2020-06-18
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SQL Homework – June 2020 – DML Triggers
Triggers. Blech. Triggers are a really really cool feature of SQL Server, that are continuously misused and cause all kinds ... Continue reading
2020-06-18 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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Azure SQL Database Migrating across Tiers
A quick post today about moving across database tiers. As you can see below I have a General Purpose Serverless Gen 5 1 vCore database (currently paused). Can I...
2020-06-17
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Daily Coping 17 Jun 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-06-17
Getting Started on AWS RDS
I’m expanding my skill set into AWS in a big way. So, one of the things I do when I’m learning a technology is to write blog posts about...
2020-06-17 (first published: 2020-06-01)
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How SQL Server stores data types: UNIQUEIDENTIFIER
This week we’re looking at how the database engine stores GUIDs (globally unique identifiers), specifically known as UNIQUEIDENTIFIER in SQL Server. If you would like to read about storage...
2020-06-17
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PASSMN June 2020 – Data Classification with SQL Server and Azure
I presented at the virtual Minnesota SQL Server User Group meeting on June 16, 2020. The topic was data classification with SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database. Data...
2020-06-17
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Stairway to Microsoft Azure SQL Database Part 4 : Azure SQL server , an overview
In the last few posts, we were discussing about database deployment model and purchase model. Out of the three deployment models, managed instance works almost like on-premises SQL server...
2020-06-17 (first published: 2020-05-31)
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Where are Sequences?–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I created a few sequence objects lately to...
2020-06-17
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Blogs
Troubleshooting SQL Server – Starting with the Error Log
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
Free Online Sessions – Building the €100 DWH and Indexing for Dummies
I’m giving two online sessions soon on virtual events that are free to attend....
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Tables with a SPARSE Column and Consumption
True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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