The Right Consultant Is Worth All The Money
Hiring consultants is like buying a new washing machine. In other words, you get what you pay for some times. A couple of months ago, my washer and dryer...
2019-11-15
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Blog Posts
The SQLSaturday pitch to host facilities
Not being able to find a good, affordable venue to host a SQLSaturday is a show-stopping problem that is common to a lot of events, especially SQLSaturdays getting started...
2019-11-15 (first published: 2019-11-05)
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Building an Azure Sandbox
It’s that time of the year again. No, not fall, although I do love the weather change that’s around the corner. It’s time for me to rebuild my Azure...
2019-11-14 (first published: 2019-11-06)
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Create a PowerShell Notebook for Azure Data Studio with PowerShell
The latest update to the ADSNotebook PowerShell module I blogged about here now enables the creation of PowerShell notebooks with PowerShell. You can install the module with or if...
2019-11-14
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Focusing on Business Value
This was a fun talk with David Atkinson at Redgate. We talk satellites, finance, and more. Including some early history of the company. We are talking about how to...
2019-11-14 (first published: 2019-11-08)
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Transaction log Information gathering
Here are the different ways to know the tlog file related information sys.dm_db_log_stats – Provide summary of tlog information SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_log_stats(db_id()) sys.dm_db_log_info -DMV function for VLF information...
2019-11-14
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What's New in SQL 2019? at BRSSUG
Thanks to everyone who joined the BRSSUG for a night all about SQL Server 2019! We got off into tangents and use cases for Big Data Clusters, columnstore, graph...
2019-11-14
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 3
This is the third post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...
2019-11-13
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 3
This is the third post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...
2019-11-13
140 reads
Did you know we have another SQL Server book coming out?
SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out was the first technical book I contributed to, and all its authors were very happy with how it turned out. All the content...
2019-11-13
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Blogs
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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,...
Forums
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
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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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