DBA Myths: CHECKDB runs on startup.
If you look at your error log you’ll (hopefully) see entries like this shortly after the instance startup: CHECKDB for ... Continue reading
2019-09-30 (first published: 2019-09-16)
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Blog Posts
Download Power BI Audit Logs with the New Get-PowerBIActivityEvent cmdlet
Earlier this week a new version of the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module was made available on the PowerShell Gallery. Two new cmdlets were included in the module Remove-PowerBIReport and Get-PowerBIActivityEvent. The...
2019-09-30
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Download Power BI Audit Logs with the New Get-PowerBIActivityEvent cmdlet
Earlier this week a new version of the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module was made available on the PowerShell Gallery. Two new cmdlets were included in the module Remove-PowerBIReport and Get-PowerBIActivityEvent. The...
2019-09-30
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How do test the upstream data is good in an etl process (etl testing part 3)?
In the first two parts of this series (https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelines-part-one-unit-tests/ and https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-processes-are-correct-how-do-we-make-sure-upstream-changes-dont-break-our-processes-and-break-our-beautiful-data/), I talked about how to unit test your business logic and integration test your ETL infrastructure code. Having...
2019-09-30
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How do test the upstream data is good in an etl process (etl testing part 3)?
In the first two parts of this series (https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelines-part-one-unit-tests/ and https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-processes-are-correct-how-do-we-make-sure-upstream-changes-dont-break-our-processes-and-break-our-beautiful-data/), I talked about how to unit test your business logic and integration test your ETL infrastructure code. Having...
2019-09-30
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Restoring Backups from Azure Blob with dbatools
Recently I needed to write a PowerShell script that could build a backup set from a collection of backups stored in Azure Blob Storage without any backup history available...
2019-09-30 (first published: 2019-09-15)
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2019-09-30
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Speaking on New SQL Server Performance Tuning Techniques – SQL User Group
Prakash will talk about some of the coolest new features of SQL Server for performance tuning which you can use to quickly troubleshoot & improve performance.
2019-09-30
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Using the SSIS Error Output On the Data Flow
When working in the SSIS data flow, you’ll notice that many sources and transformations and some destinations have a built-in output to handle errors. The error output allows the...
2019-09-30
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Memory Settings for Running SQL Server in Kubernetes
People often ask me what’s the number one thing to look out for when running SQL Server on Kubernetes…the answer is memory settings. In this post, we’re going to...
2019-09-28
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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...
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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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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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