Benchmarking with WorkloadTools
If you ever tried to capture a benchmark on your SQL Server, you probably know that it is a complex...
2019-02-15
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Blog Posts
Can I add a custom reference layer to ArcGIS and use it in Power BI?
(2019-Jan-28) When you work with maps using ArcGIS visual in Power BI, you always have a feeling that it is a...
2019-02-15 (first published: 2019-01-28)
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Configure SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance on Azure Virtual Machines with MSDTC #SQL #Azure #MSDTC
If you have been following my blog, you probably know that I write a lot of step-by-step guides for building...
2019-02-15
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Input Into Azure Data Studio
I see more and more people starting to use Azure Data Studio. As it keeps growing and expanding, it’s going...
2019-02-15 (first published: 2019-01-28)
1,805 reads
New Free Videos on SQL Prompt, SQL Compare, and SQL Doc with Redgate’s SQL Change Automation
I’m excited to have just clicked ‘publish’ on four new videos in the brand new Evangelist Tutorials playlist on Redgate’s YouTube channel. These videos step through setting up and...
2019-02-15
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Partitioning 4: Finding partitioning in DMVs and Object Explorer
Happy Friday! Today’s post will be light on the performance side and instead, I’m going to talk about how to...
2019-02-15
1,931 reads
Practical Web Scraping–Getting Started
As part of my learning goals for 2018, I wanted to work through various books. This is part of my...
2019-02-15
1,373 reads
Speaker at SQL Saturday’s Guatemala city 2019
I’m very happy to announce that for the second year in a row I will be participating as speaker in...
2019-02-15
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Chicago
I am so excited and honored to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago on Saturday, March 23, 2019. I will be presenting my...
2019-02-15
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Chicago
I am so excited and honored to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago on...
2019-02-15
101 reads
Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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