Where is your Awesome?
Everyone of us is in a perpetual pursuit of awesomeness - some actively looking for it, while others passively. Either way, it is inherent in our making to reach...
2020-09-11 (first published: 2020-09-06)
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Blog Posts
Workload Replay for Azure SQL Database and Amazon RDS
Want to make sure you don’t have errors, validate performance, and save money while making changes with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server RDS in Amazon...
2020-09-11
33 reads
Adaptive Joins in SQL Server
SQL Server 2017 (compatibility 140) brought us many Intelligent Query Processing (IQP), formally known as Adaptive Query Processing, features that improve performance on workloads straight out of the box...
2020-09-10 (first published: 2020-09-02)
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Daily Coping 10 Sep 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...
2020-09-10
14 reads
Skip Validation of SSIS Packages
There’s been an update of the SSIS extension for Visual Studio 2019. There are some bug fixes and deployments are blocked to Azure-SSIS if the target server version is...
2020-09-10 (first published: 2020-09-02)
592 reads
Troubleshooting Performance issues Like Microsoft Engineers Part 4
In the previous parts, we explained How we can Troubleshooting the Performance issue using built-in reports in SQL Server and How we can collect SQL Server logs using PSSDIAG...
2020-09-10
14 reads
Troubleshooting Performance issues Like Microsoft Engineers Part 4
In the previous parts, we explained How we can Troubleshooting the Performance issue using built-in reports in SQL Server and How we can collect SQL Server logs using PSSDIAG...
2020-09-10
80 reads
Automating DBCC CHECKDB for Azure SQL DB with Azure Functions
Warning, this is a longer post from me than usual. The title is a mouthful and so is this post. In the past I have linked to blog posts...
2020-09-09
318 reads
Daily Coping 9 Sep 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...
2020-09-09
21 reads
Failing SQL Agent Jobs – Part 1
SQL Server Agent Jobs are one of the core features of SQL Server. Agent Jobs perform many actions, from maintenance tasks (server and database), data movement flows, replication, log...
2020-09-09 (first published: 2020-09-01)
646 reads
Blogs
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...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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