Azure SQL Database for the DBA
Last month I gave a presentation to The PASS Hybrid VG https://hybrid.pass.org/. Now is a good time to become “cloud ready” as a DBA and my presentation gives a...
2020-09-03
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 3 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...
2020-09-03
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Exchanging Schemas with SQL Compare Snapshots
Recently I was working with a customer and they asked if they could somehow package up their schema without the data and send this to a colleague. Absolutely, and...
2020-09-03 (first published: 2020-08-26)
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New Logo, More Family Contributions
Kristyna and I were looking for an update to our logo prior our sponsorship and speaking at the Minnesota SQL Server User Group (PASSMN) in September 2020. I had...
2020-09-03
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Persist Sample Percent in SQL Server IS NOT PERSISTED!
When a bug jumps out and surprises me I like to share it so others do not run into the same unexpected result. I don’t think there is any...
2020-09-03 (first published: 2020-08-24)
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When one of your DBA colleagues leaves the company, what is your checklist?
Whether it’s in our personal lives or the professional one, we do have checklists for certain tasks. On the professional level, it can be purely technical like SQL Server...
2020-09-03
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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...
2020-09-02
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Daily Coping 2 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...
2020-09-02
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Group By 2020 Fall Edition – Call For Speakers
The Call for Speakers for the 2020 Fall edition of GroupBy is open, but it closes in just 3 days! We’re currently using Sessionize to help us organize this...
2020-09-02
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Recursively Querying Row Groups
Recursively Querying Related Rows Recursive queries are fun to plan and write. They can be frustrating too depending on the complexity of the problem you are trying to solve....
2020-09-02 (first published: 2020-08-25)
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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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