T-SQL Tuesday 109: To influence and to be influenced
The last T-SQL Tuesday of this year is hosted by Jason Brimhall – one of my long-time friends in the SQL...
2018-12-12
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TSQL-Tuesday #109 – Influence Somebody
Influence Somebody
Ahh, December. What a wonderful time. Snow all around (many along the eastern seaboard of the United States were...
2018-12-12
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TSQL-Tuesday #109 – Influence Somebody
Influence Somebody Ahh, December. What a wonderful time. Snow all around (many along the eastern seaboard of the United States were hit Sunday by a snowstorm… I had 7?...
2018-12-12
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Attaching databases via a dockerfile – UPDATE
This has been bugging me for a while but I just haven’t had a chance to get around to revisiting...
2018-12-11
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Email Notifications in Azure Data Factory: Failure is not an option
(2018-Nov-27) When something goes wrong with your data transformation process in Azure Data Factory, the last thing you expect to happen...
2018-12-11 (first published: 2018-11-27)
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Forcing a Plan That Has a Plan Guide
The question that came up during a recent class I was teaching was: What if you have a plan guide...
2018-12-11 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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Get Rid of those unused indexes!
Indexes in relational databases are very helpful and increase the speed to access data. However maintaining indexes is just as...
2018-12-11
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How many Cores per Socket do I need?
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2018-12-11
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PayPal for Non Profits
Part of having 501c(3) status is figuring out where and how it might make a difference. Applying for non profit...
2018-12-11
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SQL Census–From the Redgate Foundry
The Foundry at Redgate Software is our version of Microsoft Research. Kind of. We tackle some projects that are interesting...
2018-12-11
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