One-Click Package Restart in SSIS
This quick tip is likely to be the most brief of the entire collection, but is also one of the most practical. When testing SSIS packages during development in...
2019-12-19
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Christmas Script
Nothing much to say but I hope you all have a nice break. Thanks for the support and reading my blog. Enjoy the script! (Might not format correctly here...
2019-12-19
60 reads
Why You Should Take the 2020 State of Database DevOps Survey today (video)
In this six minute video, I explain why you should take the 2020 State of Database DevOps Survey. The survey is open for a few more days — we’ve...
2019-12-19
26 reads
Compression in SQL Server: COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS
On Twitter recently, I asked: Does anyone I know use the COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS features in T-SQL? To those who replied in the affirmative, I asked: What made you...
2019-12-18
149 reads
Database Reliability Engineering (22 minute video)
I was fascinated yesterday to come across the term, “Database Reliability Engineering,” which I hadn’t seen before. In this 22 minute whiteboarding session, I talk about why we need...
2019-12-18
19 reads
Distributing Jupyter Notebooks
If you’re working with the Microsoft Data Platform, you should be, at the least, exploring Azure Data Studio as a new tool in your toolbox. One of the big...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-09)
351 reads
Resetting an Azure SQL Database Admin Password
This is likely something that most people know, but it was a bit confusing for me. This post is really here to remind me and help cement this in...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-05)
2,982 reads
SSIS Layout Formatting Options
Most folks I know go to one extreme or the other when it comes to the visual layout of SQL Server Integration Services packages: either they don’t care a...
2019-12-18
836 reads
Trace Flags That Are Now Defaulted Behaviors in SQL Server
If you have ever attended one of my performance tuning sessions, you know I tend to talk about trace flags. Trace Flags can help fix performance issues and some...
2019-12-18
351 reads
Using a PoSh variable in a string- #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is something I haven’t quite understood or...
2019-12-18
113 reads
Blogs
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
Forums
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Hyperscale Replicas III
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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