What is a distributed transaction?
A while back I did a post defining a transaction. Basically, a transaction is a unit of work. The example ... Continue reading
2019-06-13 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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Blog Posts
Amazon’s Concept of Ownership and Technical Debt
I’m reading Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader. In talking about Amazon’s pursuit of a second headquarters, John Rossman wrote the following regarding ownership: Amazon’s second leadership...
2019-06-12
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Containers: Create a Custom Container
Creating a custom container is where things get truly exciting. There’s actually a ton of work and knowledge around this. To start with, I’m going to keep it simple....
2019-06-12 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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Mass Backup All Sessions
Migrating Extended Event Sessions from one server to another should be a simple task. So simple, one would think there was no need to give it a second thought,...
2019-06-12 (first published: 2019-05-23)
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SSDT (SqlPackage) thread crashes with error when publishing
In this post, I will show you one of the scenarios when SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) can fail unexpectedly while publishing database project to target server or preparation...
2019-06-12
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#tsql2sday – A Letter to My 20 Year-Old Self
Self, I am writing this to you in my mid 40s. I know when I was 20, I wasn’t thinking about 30, much less 40. Here’s some advice I’d...
2019-06-11
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A letter to my 20 year-old self
This post is a part of #tsql2sday, a monthly community ritual where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to join in. This month’s...
2019-06-11
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Azure Cosmos DB Local Emulator
Technically you do not have to create a cosmos DB and incur costs to test cosmos DB based applications, you could use the local emulator. This means that you...
2019-06-11
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Import Local SQL Server Database to Azure – Pick the Best Method
It is not unknown to the SQL users that some of the SQL Server versions have become outdated. This is the main reason why most of the SQL Server...
2019-06-11
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Import Local SQL Server Database to Azure – Pick the Best Method
It is not unknown to the SQL users that some of the SQL Server versions have become outdated. This is the main reason why most of the SQL Server...
2019-06-11
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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Creating JSON II
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