Quickly Compare Data in Two Tables Using CHECKSUM and CHECKSUM_AGG

There are times when we need to compare two tables and figure out if the data matches. I often see...

Using Microsoft Learn

I’ve just signed up on Microsoft’s new learning opportunity Microsoft Learn. The main categories are Azure, Business Apps, and Windows...

Using WGS 84 shape maps in Power BI

(2018-Dec-31) Back in July of 2018, Ontario provincial government of Canada decided to decrease the number of Toronto city wards from 47...

Visualizing Merge Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications

This post is part 2 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 – nested...

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I mean, it can’t be that my calendar shows December and the year is almost over? Alright, I see I...

A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database

Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables....

A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database

Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables. This nightly process removes data for operations that are...

SQLs Black Box Recorder – sp_server_diagnostics

Yesterday i shared the first article in a three part series about the SQL Black Box Recorder, that you can...

SQLs Black Box Recorder – sp_server_diagnostics

The diagnostics process will trap various server related health (diagnostics) information related to the SQL Server instance in an effort to try and detect potential failures and errors.
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in my previous post I wrote about how easy it is to add the tSQLt unit test framework to your...