Weekly reading #27
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...
2019-10-01
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Blog Posts
Why Does Everyone Have More Friends Than You?
No, the answer isn’t because you’re a DBA. This isn’t a technical post about databases, but rather a discussion of a statistical paradox that I read about recently. Statistics...
2019-10-01
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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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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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Blogs
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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