SQLCover 0.5 - Fixes, smaller features and an exciting surprise
It has been a little while but I have updated SQLCover to include a number of fixes and small features, the majority of which are improvements to the html...
2019-10-16
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Blog Posts
Upcoming SQLpassion Online Trainings
(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...
2019-10-16 (first published: 2019-10-10)
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Using indexed views? What is an imprecise or non-deterministic convert?
After last week’s post about using WITH (NOEXPAND) to query indexed views even on SQL Server Enterprise Edition, this week is a short but interesting side-road into deterministic values,...
2019-10-16
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Are Stored Procedures Faster Than Stand-Alone Queries?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A few months ago I was presenting for a user group when someone asked the following question:
Does a query embedded in a stored procedure...
2019-10-15
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Are Stored Procedures Faster Than Stand-Alone Queries?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A few months ago I was presenting for a user group when someone asked the following question:
Does a query embedded in a stored procedure...
2019-10-15
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Dynamic Column Level Security with Power BI and SSAS
Last week I was asked to tackle a requirement by a customer adopting Analysis Services to enable data exploration and ad hoc analysis by their users. One of their...
2019-10-15 (first published: 2019-10-09)
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Employees don’t work for you; you work for them
Alex Yates (b | t) is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday (the 119th edition) with asking us to write about something in our IT career that we have changes our minds...
2019-10-15 (first published: 2019-10-09)
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Get the Governance Data You Need Out of Your Power BI Gateways with PowerShell
OK, before anyone yells at me: Yes, I know the On-Premises Data Gateways are now part of Power Platform, not just Power BI. I learned how to do everything...
2019-10-15
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Get the Governance Data You Need Out of Your Power BI Gateways with PowerShell
OK, before anyone yells at me: Yes, I know the On-Premises Data Gateways are now part of Power Platform, not just Power BI. I learned how to do everything...
2019-10-15
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New Event Calendar
Speaking Engagements Check out my new Event Calendar, to see my upcoming and past speaking engagements. You can catch me at various events throughout the year. If you are...
2019-10-15
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Blogs
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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