MVP for Another Year
I am honored and humbled to be awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the Data Platform category. This is my 6th award, and I am just as...
2019-07-30
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Blog Posts
Power BI Interview Questions – Volume 03 – DAX
Welcome to our continuing series that Erin Ostrowsky [Blog | Twitter] and I spend focusing on interviewing for a Power BI position. This series will
2019-07-30 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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The tools you should know for the Machine Learning projects
I would like to start my first Machine Learning project. But I do not have tools. What should I do? What tools (environments, libraries etc) shoudl I use? I...
2019-07-30
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Event Files on Linux
For the most part, things work the way you might expect them to work in windows - except it is on Linux. Sure some things are different, but SQL...
2019-07-29 (first published: 2019-07-10)
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More Kubernetes Concepts
This post continues looking at my process of learning more about Kubernetes. I’ve been working through the 50 days of Kubernetes (K8s). Now that I had a break from...
2019-07-29
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Optional vs Required parameters in Stored Procedures
If you are executing a stored procedure with a bunch of parameters it can be a bit of a pain ... Continue reading
2019-07-29
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Sample Azure DevOps Pipelines
I’ve said it before and I will repeat myself on this because it’s an important concept: DevOps is about culture and communication, not tools Now, that said, to implement...
2019-07-29
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SQL server and Java?
I was generally reading about SQL Server and how things have changed since the days of just having it within a Windows Eco-system only. It then led me to...
2019-07-29
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Think Like a Certification Exam at SQLSaturday Birmingham
Thanks for joining us at SQLSat Birmingham! Had a great session with an awesome amount of participation and shared insights, including some very clever test takers.Congrats and kudos to...
2019-07-29
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Top SQL Server migration questions
Below are the top 12 questions I am seeing from customers looking to migrate on-prem SQL Server to Azure, and the blogs that I have wrote that try to...
2019-07-29
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Blogs
In Memory of Andrew Clarke, AKA Phil Factor
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
Leading Through the Noise: Harnessing Data in the Age of Digital Overload
By Chris Yates
The New Leadership Frontier In today’s digital landscape, leaders are no longer just visionaries....
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
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taking the rcsi dive
Hi, we put together an extract that runs every 15 minutes against what i...
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers