A new version of the Microsoft whitepaper “Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment” is now available. Once again, Melissa Coates (b|t) and Chris Webb (b|t) are the authors. I...
2020-06-16 (first published: 2020-05-28)
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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...
2020-06-16
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SQL Server, Virtualization and Storage expert David Klee (b|t)stops by to tell stories ?? Fun stuff: “English and Gibberish” “Learn it like you’re going to teach it” “Kevin Kline...
2020-06-16
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If you've tried doing Backup to URL with SQL Server using a Shared Access Signature (SAS) certificate and received this error: Error: 18204, Severity: 16, State: 1.BackupDiskFile::CreateMedia: Backup...
2020-06-16 (first published: 2020-05-28)
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For the second consecutive year, I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Albany 2020 on July 25th, 2020. I will be presenting “Keys to a Healthy Relationship with SQL...
2020-06-16
Under compatibility level 150, in both SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database, you now can use batch mode for CPU-bound analytic type workloads without requiring columnstore indexes. There...
2020-06-16
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Today I want to share how I’m keeping a copy of instances’ configurations using dbatools. Chrissy LeMaire (B | T) wrote about it before on the Simplifying disaster recovery...
2020-06-15 (first published: 2020-06-02)
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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...
2020-06-15
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A few years ago I got an amazing watch as a ten year gift from Redgate: a Garmin Forerunner 645. Since then, I’ve used this regularly to track my...
2020-06-15
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This year I created a new presentation for introducing Azure Data Catalog. I love this product and think it has so much potential and everyone should be using it! ...
2020-06-15 (first published: 2020-05-26)
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By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
I’m giving two online sessions soon on virtual events that are free to attend....
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True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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