Video – Creating Azure SQL Database
A quick 2 minute upload (with sound, my voice) showing you how easy it is to create an Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal and then using SSMS...
2019-04-23
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Blog Posts
Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
SQL Server needs to make sure data types match when performing operations that involve multiple pieces of data. When the data types do not match, SQL Server has to...
2019-04-22 (first published: 2019-04-09)
708 reads
Database Recovery Monitoring with XE
Database recovery (crash recovery) is a nerve wrenching situation under the wrong conditions. It can be as bad as a root canal and just as necessary to endure that...
2019-04-22 (first published: 2019-04-10)
634 reads
Power BI Governance 101 at SQL Saturday 820 in Jacksonville, Florida on May 4
Coming up in just a couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my session, Power BI Governance 101, at SQL Saturday #820 in Jacksonville, Florida on May 4th. The event...
2019-04-22
42 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday Raleigh
I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Raleigh this Saturday, April 27, 2019. I have been part of the organizing team for this...
2019-04-22
30 reads
Weekly reading #12
It was an Easter Monday yesterday and I thought it was not a good time to prepare a blog post. It was a time to rest with the family...
2019-04-22
18 reads
So, my first SQL Saturday presentation had some issues
It’s been a while since I’ve had a new post here, and that’s largely due to the quantity of other things on which I’ve been working. This list of...
2019-04-19
5 reads
So, my first SQL Saturday presentation had some issues
It’s been a while since I’ve had a new post here, and that’s largely due to the quantity of other things on which I’ve been working. This list of...
2019-04-19
9 reads
SQL Server on Linux – how does it actually work?
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2019-04-19 (first published: 2019-04-08)
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SQLServerCentral Design–QotD
This is part of a series of posts that look at the changes to the SQLServerCentral design, bringing us to v3 of the site. You can see the other...
2019-04-19
74 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
By SQLPals
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
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