Advent of Code 2018 – Day 5 (Alchemical Reduction)
Advent of Code 2018 – Day 5
As I explained in a recent post, I’m participating in this year’s Advent of Code...
2018-12-05
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Blog Posts
Azure Data Factory v2 and its available components in Data Flows
Many of you (including me) wonder about it. Namely: Is it possible to move my ETL process from SSIS to...
2018-12-05
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Enabling Query Store
Performance tuning in SQL Server is one of the main jobs a DBA has. Starting with SQL Sever 2016 a...
2018-12-05
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Flagrantly ignoring the 10% rule
My friend Michael J. Swart has a rule of thumb he calls Swart’s Ten Percent Rule. If you’re using over...
2018-12-05
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SQL Data Discovery and Classification in SSMS 17.5
Data exploration and documentation can be cumbersome, classifying data can be one of those tedious but necessary things. With the...
2018-12-05
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UDL files and connection strings
A co-worker showed me a really neat trick the other day. We deal with a lot of connection problems and...
2018-12-05
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Useful T-SQL queries and scripts to work in SQL Server
This post is about some queries and scripts that I use in my daily work on SQL Server. Some of them are self-explanatory, i.e. the name of the query/script...
2018-12-05
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Useful T-SQL queries and scripts to work in SQL Server
This post is about some queries and scripts that I use in my daily work on SQL Server. Some of them are self-explanatory, i.e. the name of the query/script...
2018-12-05
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What were you thinking (hidden relationship)???
What were you thinking?
Have you ever been working on some code from another person, and you end up scratching your...
2018-12-05 (first published: 2018-11-20)
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Azure SQL Database – Firewall Rules
If you decide to use IP addresses to control what services have access to your Azure SQL Database, then understanding...
2018-12-04
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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A Worse Computer; A Better Car
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