Daily Coping 21 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...

Distributed Tables in Azure Synapse SQL

Azure Synapse is the new Generation of SQL DW (Azure SQL Data Warehouse), that is launched in the past year In November 2019 the First announced for Azure SQL...

Finding & Downloading Required SQL Server Updates

A little while back, I offered up a one-liner to scan your SQL Server instances and report which ones are out of date. But what if you need to...

Finding & Downloading Required SQL Server Updates

A little while back, I offered up a one-liner to scan your SQL Server instances and report which ones are out of date. But what if you need to...

Multi-subnet AlwaysON Failover Testing - Part 2

Multi-subnet AlwaysON Failover Testing - Part 2

Let’s do Multi-subnet AlwaysON failover testing for different scenarios

Multi-subnet AlwaysON Failover Testing - Part 2

Refreshing a Power BI Dataset in Azure Data Factory

I recently needed to ensure that a Power BI imported dataset would be refreshed after populating data in my data mart. I was already using Azure Data Factory to...

Snowflake – Understanding constraints

One of the concepts in Snowflake that I find many struggle with is how constraints are handled. If you come from a traditional database platform such as Microsoft SQL...

AWS Deployment Pipelines

I’m at the just barely scratching the surface level of getting started with AWS Deployment Pipelines. Of course, the first thing I want to do with them is get...