T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts Received This Year
Closing out 2019’s T-SQL Tuesday, Mala (blog | twitter) is asking us to reflect on the past twelve months:
This is a time for material gift giving, for many of...
2019-12-11
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Blog Posts
How Serverless is Working in Azure SQL Database
When Azure SQL Database introduced the serverless option, I decided to try it. I moved one of my databases to the tier, though I had to move to a...
2019-12-10 (first published: 2019-11-27)
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Install ALL Things SQL Server… What?
Does your server look like this? Many of us have inherited a SQL Server instance that has all SQL Services installed. Someone, maybe even you, went through the SQL...
2019-12-10 (first published: 2019-11-26)
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Online, Resumable, and WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY operations in SQL Server
ONLINE operations in SQL Server were simple to understand for years — we got ONLINE index rebuilds in SQL Server 2005. That was it for a while. Then, things...
2019-12-10
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Speakers wanted for the Richmond (VA) SQL Server Users Group – 2020
Are you a speaker in SQL Server topics? Come on out to Richmond, VA to speak to our user group. There are several topics that we are interested in...
2019-12-10
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Speakers wanted for the Richmond (VA) SQL Server Users Group – 2020
Are you a speaker in SQL Server topics? Come on out to Richmond, VA to speak to our user group. There are several topics that we are interested in...
2019-12-10
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The Gift of the SPN
Every once in a while there is an extremely valuable tool that comes along. While the footprint and use frequency of this tool may not be that big, the...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #121 Gifts received
I am hosting 2019’s last T-SQL Tuesday of the year. I chose to ask people to write on gifts they had received – by way of community, relationships, or...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invites us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve been gifted with a lot of things this year personally...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again! This edition is hosted by Malathi (blog|twitter) and the subject is looking back at the past year. So what do I have to be...
2019-12-10
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Blogs
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FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
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2025 Wrapped for Steve
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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
What does this code return?
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