Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework
I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer,...
2019-02-04
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Blog Posts
Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework
I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer, I love Entity Framework. That’s right. Entity Framework is...
2019-02-04
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 5: Finding Previous Non Null Value
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-04
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Finding Cluster Log Errors
Sometimes you know that a problem occurred, but the tools are not giving you the right information. If you ever...
2019-02-04 (first published: 2019-01-18)
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Interview Trick Questions
Anybody that has interviewed for a job has most likely run into the trick question. Some interviewers like to throw out multiple trick questions all in an effort to...
2019-02-04
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Learning for Feb
By the time you read this, I’ll have decided, but I just finished the first book and need to pick...
2019-02-04
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SQL Homework – February 2019 – Instance configurations
This homework series really has two purposes. It’s a primer for beginners. These are tasks I think most if not...
2019-02-04
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SQL Server Monitoring: Keeping track of missing index requests
A lot of us turn to execution plans when we see a slow running query, and it’s not uncommon to...
2019-02-04
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Step-by-Step: How to configure a SQL Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Instance in Azure
Introduction
If you are reading this article you probably are still using SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and want to take advantage...
2019-02-04
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Tidier PowerShell Scripts with Default Parameter Values
I was recently working on a PowerShell script to set up some new databases for my users and found myself writing the same things over and over again.
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2019-02-04
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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