SQLpassion Online Training in April
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2020-04-01
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SQLpassion Online Training in April
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2020-04-01
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Transforming JSON to CSV with the help of Flatten task in Azure Data Factory - Part 2 (Wrangling data flows)
(2020-Mar-26) There are two ways to create data flows in Azure Data Factory (ADF): regular data flows also known as "Mapping Data Flows" and Power Query based data flows also...
2020-04-01 (first published: 2020-03-26)
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Be Safe, Be Strong and Be Kind…. surviving COVID Lockdown in New Zealand
Currently we have have the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world. Here in New Zealand we are currently in lockdown – what this means is that we Kiwis are required...
2020-03-31
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Daily Coping 31 Mar 2010
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-03-31
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DB Automation with Azure DevOps
I sincerely believe the key to your future as a DBA is your ability to automate everything you do. However, the single hardest thing that you have to do...
2020-03-31 (first published: 2020-03-25)
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Goal Progress Report for March 2020
I made goals at the end of February, when I returned from sabbatical. Since then, the world has been turned upside down with a pandemic, and I’ve been struggling...
2020-03-31
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Moving Your SQL Workload to the Cloud
Every day, more IT organizations decide to move their SQL Server databases to Azure. In fact, over a million on-premises SQL Server databases have been moved to Azure. There’s...
2020-03-31 (first published: 2020-03-25)
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Speaker at PASS Marathon – 2020
I’m very happy to share that I will be speaking at the next PASS Marathon event. Here are the details of the session I will be presenting on April...
2020-03-31
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Unit Testing & Intelligent Query Processing
Actually, these two topics don’t have anything to do with one another. I just ran out of days to promote everyone individually who was taking part in putting on...
2020-03-31
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Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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