What permissions do temp stored procedures use?
In a performance tuning class I recently took with Brent Ozar (b/t) he mentioned temporary stored procedures and an interesting ... Continue reading
2019-06-19
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Blog Posts
Achieving application consistent recovery points of SQL Server 2008 R2 with Azure Site Recovery in Azure
If you want to use ASR to replicate SQL Server 2008 R2 standalone or clustered instances, you will need to update the SQL Writer to 2012 or later. You...
2019-06-18
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Globally Distributed Azure Cosmos DB
Let’s use the Azure portal to build a globally distributed Cosmos DB. Before doing this, why would you ? what are the benefits? Regional based. By this I mean...
2019-06-18
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Implicit Conversion Fail
Implicit conversions are not uncommon in the computing world and can be viewed as kind of a fail-safe for when we don't quite follow decent practices when designing the...
2019-06-18 (first published: 2019-05-31)
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
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A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
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Trello For The User Group
I’m trying Trello this year to manage both SQLSaturday and our other events. Part of that is giving the whole team visibility of the work that remains to be...
2019-06-18
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What You Need to Know About Data Classifications in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Data classifications in Azure SQL DW entered public preview in March 2019. They allow you to label columns in your data warehouse with their information type and sensitivity level....
2019-06-18 (first published: 2019-05-30)
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Bump nuspec file version with powershell
Bump Nuspec Version
Bumping the version of the nuspec file requires a little tweaking and I got some help from the slack powershell community to ensure I handled the xml...
2019-06-17
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Container: More on Volumes
In my last post I showed how you can create a volume with your container. I then showed a few things you can with a container using a volume....
2019-06-17 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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Blogs
Scaling PowerShell – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
Installing Old Versions of PowerShell Modules with Their Dependencies
By alevyinroc
I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a...
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...
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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
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Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale – Level 2: Page Server Architecture Explained
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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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