Modernizing Your T-SQL: Trimming Strings
This is one of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server. Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL...
2020-03-17
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Blog Posts
Modernizing Your T-SQL: Trimming Strings
This is one of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server.
Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL Server...
2020-03-17
6 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #124 – Query Store Summary
Happy St. Patrick’s Day (are you wearing something green)! For March I asked everyone to blog something related to Query Store, here is a summary of in alphabetical order...
2020-03-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #124 Query Store and Spin Locks #tsql2sday
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Tracy Boggiano and she’s asking us to write about our experiences with Query Store. I thought about what I should write, I’m...
2020-03-17 (first published: 2020-03-10)
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Azure SQL DB – An instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server.
The full message when connecting to your Azure SQL Database is: Reason: An instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The public data endpoint on this...
2020-03-16
384 reads
Extended Events: system_health and a Long Running Query
Wouldn’t it be great to just quickly and easily take a look at your system to see if you had any queries that ran for a long time, but,...
2020-03-16 (first published: 2020-03-09)
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Improved VMware vCenter Performance Metric Logging
By default, the vSphere vCenter deployment contains a virtual appliance where the VMware management and orchestration platform, vCenter, resides and runs from. The default performance metric statistics collection interval...
2020-03-16 (first published: 2020-03-09)
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Learning some DAX
I’ve not done much BI work in my career, other than simple aggregates in reports. I’ve wanted to tackle projects, but I’ve rarely had a chance to spend time...
2020-03-16
217 reads
Power BI Sharing
There are many ways to share the dashboards, reports, and datasets that you create in Power BI. Below I’ll compare all such options (there are twelve!). First make sure...
2020-03-16
80 reads
SQLOrlando Update
We’ve cancelled our upcoming Meetups in April and May due the loss of our venue (due to corona virus worries) though we would have probably cancelled them anyway. Our...
2020-03-16
6 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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