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
36 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
15 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)
593 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
17 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
82 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
320 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)
648 reads
Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
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