Changes to the PASS Bylaws
If you haven’t read the proposed changes yet you should do that first and form your own opinion before reading mine. Thoughts here are high level, not a line...
2019-05-10
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Blog Posts
Deploy SSIS Packages with PowerShell .ISPAC Deployment, using the SSIS Provider
In today's world, people expect to be able to commit one change, then have the entire project re-deployed and automated tests run against it. Using the SSIS PowerShell...
2019-05-10 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Initialize-HgsServiceName Fails in VMWare
A short one, but one that took some digging and debugging and help from others. Saving here, so I remember, as do others. I had a VMWare Workstation v12.x...
2019-05-10 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Interview with Robert Farley
This is the third interview we have done. This time our guest is Robert Farley who can be also recognized as the famous guitar player! Here you can find...
2019-05-10
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Microsoft Build 2019 Announcements and Sessions on Demand
If you are like me and were unable to get away from the office to attend Microsoft Build 2019 you will be glad to know that Microsoft has published...
2019-05-10
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Execute SSIS Package from PowerShell
My friend Andy Leonard has written an excellent blog series on getting SSIS up & running in a Docker container. I would never have even tried to go down...
2019-05-09 (first published: 2019-04-30)
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Is Your Availability Group ‘REALLY’ Ready To Failover?
You know what it’s like, you need to fail your AG over but is it safe to fail over? Perhaps you’ve clicked on ‘failover’ for the AG and there’s...
2019-05-09 (first published: 2019-04-29)
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Azure Data Factory: Extracting array first element
(2019-Apr-28) Full credit goes to Microsoft for the latest efforts updating Azure products with new features and documenting corresponding changes for the end users. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a great...
2019-05-08 (first published: 2019-04-29)
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Data Persistency and Advanced SQL Server Disk Topologies in Kubernetes
When working with SQL Server in containers and Kubernetes storage is a key concept. In this post, we’re going to walk through how to deploy SQL Server in Kubernetes...
2019-05-08
522 reads
Data Persistency and Advanced SQL Server Disk Topologies in Kubernetes
When working with SQL Server in containers and Kubernetes storage is a key concept. In this post, we’re going to walk through how to deploy SQL Server in Kubernetes...
2019-05-08
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Blogs
The Mystery of SQL Server 2025’s New Tricks – Scooby Dooing Episode 5
Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail...
A Prompt AI Experiment
By Steve Jones
Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)
By Kevin3NF
How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at...
Forums
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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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