T-SQL Tuesday #124 – I’m a Query Store Newbie
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month, and this month Tracy Boggiano (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about Query...
2020-03-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #124 - I'm a Query Store Newbie
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month, and this month Tracy Boggiano (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about Query...
2020-03-11
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Two years of working remotely
I’ve been working remotely for just over 2 years now and my current position is my first remote post. Before joining my current company I (and them) had concerns...
2020-03-11
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Data Privacy – Playing your part
Tuesday 28th January 2020 was “Data Privacy Day 2020” Some may refer to this as Data Protection Day, but it is really just a day to draw attention to...
2020-03-10 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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Modernizing Your T-SQL: The Sequence Object
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...
2020-03-10
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Modernizing Your T-SQL: The Sequence Object
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...
2020-03-10
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SQL Database MI benefits
As I see a huge number of customers migrating their on-prem databases to the Azure cloud, the main question they ask is about whether they should go with an...
2020-03-10 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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T-SQL Tuesday #124 – Monitoring Query Store’s Impact on Your System
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blogging party is brought to you well by me and I wanted to talk more about Query Store. I did write a book on it...
2020-03-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #124–Query Store in Action
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #124 and I’m dropping a quick post as I’ve had lots of other stuff to do since returning from my sabbatical. Tracy Boggiano is the...
2020-03-10
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Let’s Call It What It Is: Complexity Debt
Technical debt get deprioritized too often because business sees the word, “technical.” It doesn’t matter what the true meaning is. And it’s a big problem. It really needs proper...
2020-03-09 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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