Weekly reading #28

September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...

How I applied 13 cumulative updates in 12 minutes

Twitter is a strange place. I mean, aside from all the outrage practice and animal videos. Last week I sent out a tweet about how I used dbatools to...

How to Reduce the Risk of SQL Database Corruption

Introduction:

Today we are going to learn how to prevent SQL database corruption. Let’s start with some facts about how database corruption can occur actually. The SQL database corruption could...

I’m Speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2019

I’m happy to be speaking at Microsoft Ignite this year. I have an unconference session and a regular session, both focused on accessibility in the Power Platform. The regular...

Instantaneous Transaction Rollback with SQL 2019

If you’ve read about the Accelerated Database Recovery feature in SQL Server 2019 you could be forgiven for thinking it’s just about speeding up database recovery time in case...

Leveraging WHILE LOOP

WHILE LOOP can be used for batch processing and can be helpful if you are dealing with huge data processing. Recently I did an analytics project where I had...

Speaker at SQL Saturday# 908 – Denver 2019

I’m very happy to announce that this will be my second time participating as speaker at the SQL Saturday# 908 in Denver! Here are the details of the session...

SQL Server Virtual Machines in Azure

Let’s create a virtual machine in Azure that has an imaged copy of SQL Server on it. I want to do this because down the line I want to...

Using indexed views? Don’t forget this important tip.

Today after fighting with designing a view that let me create a clustered index on it (indexed views — also known as materialized views — are awesome in the right context!),...

Communicating Effectively at the Workplace

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #119 prompt by Alex Yates.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...