Building an Azure Sandbox
It’s that time of the year again. No, not fall, although I do love the weather change that’s around the corner. It’s time for me to rebuild my Azure...
2019-11-06
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Blog Posts
Building an Azure Sandbox
It’s that time of the year again. No, not fall, although I do love the weather change that’s around the corner. It’s time for me to rebuild my Azure...
2019-11-06
6 reads
Building an Azure Sandbox
It’s that time of the year again. No, not fall, although I do love the weather change that’s around the corner. It’s time for me to rebuild my Azure...
2019-11-06
6 reads
Getting table row counts with sp_Tablecount
Sometimes you just want to get a quick row count for a specific table – other times you may want to see a list of tables order by size...
2019-11-06 (first published: 2019-10-30)
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Hi, I’m Hamish Watson and I’m running for the PASS Board of Directors.
Hi, I’m Hamish Watson and I am running for the PASS Board of Directors: https://www.pass.org/Governance/Elections.aspx This blog post is why I decided to run for the board, why I...
2019-11-06
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Links and Resources from “How to Architect Successful Database Changes”
Steve Jones and I had a great time today talking about source control for databases and release patterns for performance and availability in Seattle. We had a great group...
2019-11-06
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2019-11-06
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2019-11-06
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Powerhell Notebooks in ADS–A Minor Issue
I heard about the addition of PoSh as a kernel for notebooks in Azure Data Studio. This is in the November 2019 release, and you can download/upgrade today to...
2019-11-06
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SQL Server 2019 is here
With the release of SQL Server 2019, I wanted to highlight in a single place some things that I’m excited about. Drawing on sessions I presented this year at...
2019-11-06
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Blogs
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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