Query deadlock info in Azure SQL DB
A couple of weeks ago, a developer came to me and wanted to know how to figure out what was causing a deadlock. I honestly didn’t know where to...
2024-07-03 (first published: 2024-06-14)
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A couple of weeks ago, a developer came to me and wanted to know how to figure out what was causing a deadlock. I honestly didn’t know where to...
2024-07-03 (first published: 2024-06-14)
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Have you heard the news about the new Power BI Project files? Okay, maybe not news anymore since it was announced over a year ago. Just in case you...
2024-07-02 (first published: 2024-07-01)
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DIVERSIFY! We devote a lot of time to mastering the technology that we are passionate about or use for our jobs. For example, I specialized in Microsoft business intelligence,...
2024-07-02
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I wrote an article that was published on SQL Server Central on how to get your scripts into Git. This post adds a few more thoughts on how you...
2024-07-01
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When you develop data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric (the Azure Data Factory equivalent in Fabric, not to be confused with deployment pipelines), you will most likely have some activities...
2024-07-01 (first published: 2024-06-13)
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Database Property LastGoodCheckDbTime to Get the Last Successful DBCC CHECKDB on a Database
As one of the preventive database maintenance tasks, performing database integrity checks on almost every database you...
2024-07-01 (first published: 2024-06-13)
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addleworth – adj. unable to settle the question of whether you’re doing okay in life; feeling torn between conflicting value systems and moveable goalposts, which makes you long for...
2024-06-28
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Introduction Welcome back to the fifth installment of our blog series on using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2. In this post, we’re diving into a hands-on demonstration of using...
2024-06-28 (first published: 2024-06-12)
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I started working at Microsoft in January 2022. I enjoy it. I even wrote a stream-of-consciousness post about it last year. A significant part of our job in the...
2024-06-28 (first published: 2024-06-10)
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In Azure Data Factory (ADF, but also Synapse Pipelines and Fabric Pipelines), you have a typical scenario where you retrieve some metadata from a database and then loop over...
2024-06-27
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By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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