Watch: Kendra Breaks and Fixes SQL Source Control (9 minutes)
I love breaking technology. Well, I love breaking technology on purpose, in a place where it’s not going to slow anyone else down. It’s a great way to learn...
2019-03-04
9 reads
Blog Posts
Weekly reading #5
Last week was busy the busy one. The SQL Bits, SQL Server CTP 2.3 and other great stuff have come...
2019-03-04
343 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-03-03)
Hey everyone! I was very busy at the SQLBits conference last week, but it did not stop me to prepare...
2019-03-03
308 reads
Data story behind a Global Fishing Power BI report
(2019-Mar-01) The first time I heard about the Data For A Cause initiatives was at one of the Power BI meetups in Toronto....
2019-03-01
819 reads
Practical Web Scraping–More Reading
As part of my learning goals for 2018, I wanted to work through various books. This is part of my...
2019-03-01
628 reads
Published in the ISACA Journal!
In my effort to write more regularly, I’ve branched out a bit to write in the audit and compliance space....
2019-03-01
273 reads
Restoring a Database from Azure
In a previous post, I described how you can use Azure storage to store SQL Server database backup files. This...
2019-03-01
495 reads
Transforming Data With Azure Data Factory Data Flow
Azure Data Factory (ADF) offers a convenient cloud-based platform for orchestrating data from and to on-premise, on-cloud, and hybrid sources...
2019-03-01
1,983 reads
What is my why?–T-SQL Tuesday #111
This is an interesting question from Andy Leonard for T-SQL Tuesday: What Is Your “Why”? He is this month’s host...
2019-03-01 (first published: 2019-02-12)
3,156 reads
Why make?
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #111 prompt by Andy Leonard. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2019-03-01 (first published: 2019-02-12)
3,226 reads
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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...
Forums
Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Changes, Happiness, and a Few...
BCP on Linux
Comments posted to this topic are about the item BCP on Linux
You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database
Comments posted to this topic are about the item You Probably Don't Need a...
Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
See possible answers