Management Studio Find & Replace Using Regular Expressions

In my last Management Studio tip, I demonstrated how you can drag and drop column names to a query window. The only part I do not like about that...

Using LAST_QUERY_PLAN_STATS in SQL Server 2019

In my opinion, SQL Server 2019 is one of the greatest releases of the product that Microsoft has ever produced.  The amount of improvements across the platform really allows...

Azure Cosmos DB API Architecture

Again, still we have a lot of information we can spread our knowledge on it for Cosmos DB today I will talk about Cosmos DB API options and How...

Building an Azure Architecture Diagram

One of the challenges I have at times is illustrating how I’d set up a particular system. Not the technical details, the visual ones. I can use boxes and...

Daily Coping 27 Jul 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...

Everything I Never Wanted to Know About Collation (14 minute video/podcast episode)

I'm not an expert on collation in SQL Server, but there are a few important facts which I've had to learn the hard way.

In this episode I share...

SQL Server and Docker Compose

I used to think that Docker Compose was used solely to spin up multiple containers, in fact I blogged about doing just that here. That opinion changed when I...

SQL Server Stretch DB to Azure

Since SQL Server 2016 we could leverage Microsoft Azure to dynamically move “cold” portions of data away from on-premises storage for longer retention time periods. Whilst in theory being...

Recapping SQL Saturday Albany 2020 (virtual)

This weekend was SQL Saturday Albany 2020. This was my third time attending the Albany event, my second time presenting, and my first virtual SQL Saturday. As always, Ed...

Getting Started with Stream Analytics

Resources

Resources

If you want a schema reference for the json Application Insights produces // [Azure Application Insights Data Model // Microsoft Docs

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If you want to visualize last 90 days of...