The Journey to SQL Server 2019 – where does your own journey start?
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] A couple of weeks back I presented the keynote at SQL Server Saturday Sydney, which was an absolute blast. It was...
2019-08-31
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Blog Posts
Actual Kubernetes
This post continues looking at my process of learning more about Kubernetes. I’ve been working through the 50 days of Kubernetes (K8s). I completed the first 3 sections (Days...
2019-08-30 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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Adding SQL Change Automation to Jenkins for Database CI
In a previous post, I explained how to get Jenkins running in a container for your local CI work. In this one, I’ll expand on the process for database...
2019-08-30 (first published: 2019-08-21)
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Find and fix that troublesome Windows Power setting
For the most part, the default configurations for SQL Server are pretty good. Yeah, there are a few you should definitely change (like say, the ones involving parallelism), but...
2019-08-30
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Find and fix that troublesome Windows Power setting
For the most part, the default configurations for SQL Server are pretty good. Yeah, there are a few you should definitely change (like say, the ones involving parallelism), but...
2019-08-30
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SQL in the City Streamed Next Week
I’m off to the UK this weekend, for a few commitments next week. One of those is SQL in the City Streamed, which is taking place on Wednesday September...
2019-08-30
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2
This is the second 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...
2019-08-29
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2
This is the second 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...
2019-08-29
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2
This is the second 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...
2019-08-29
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Help! My Apache Spark configuration on windows isn't working (I think)
Steps needed Getting Apache Spark running on windows involves:
Installing a JRE 8 (Java 1.8/OpenJDK 8) Downloading and extracting SPARK and setting SPARK_HOME Downloading winutils.exe and setting HADOOP_HOME If...
2019-08-29
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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