(2019-October-16) Developing conditional logic of your Azure Data Factory control flow has been simplified with introducing of the Switch activity - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-switch-activity. Official documentation resource states, this new data factory activity "provides...
2019-10-29 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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Query hints are always about tradeoffs—typically you are giving up something, such as flexibility, to achieve more consistency, or very specific performance characteristic. One example of this migt when...
2019-10-29 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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In checklist form! Absolute I-probably-won’t-survive-without-this ESSENTIALS Wallet Prescriptions Glasses/contacts Phone and cord Laptop and cord (okay, maybe this is just me) A jacket (after all, Seattle) Generally A GOOD IDEA...
2019-10-29
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In checklist form! Absolute I-probably-won’t-survive-without-this ESSENTIALS Wallet Prescriptions Glasses/contacts Phone and cord Laptop and cord (okay, maybe this is just me) A jacket (after all, Seattle) Generally A GOOD IDEA...
2019-10-29
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I’m a DBA. Data types are kind of important to me. I mean I know they are important to developers ... Continue reading
2019-10-28
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If you’re running availability groups it may seem like a great idea to offload your read only reporting workloads to a secondary. There are a couple of ways that...
2019-10-28 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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This article is Part 1 in a series of articles showing how to build a SQL Cluster Lab. It covers building a Windows Cluster in Hyper-V that supports both...
2019-10-28
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This article is Part 1 in a series of articles showing how to build a SQL Cluster Lab. It covers building a Windows Cluster in […]
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2019-10-28
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I get asked quite a bit about my thoughts on the impact Cloud computing has on a DBA role. Still in 2019, I get people say oh it’s the...
2019-10-28
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The problemYou don’t know anything about Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.Do any of the following describe you
You are running your business, and you’ve heard all about “the cloud” and how it...
2019-10-28
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By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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