SQL Homework – October 2018 – Time for an upgrade
When you created your home lab last September you probably installed a version of SQL 2016. Well, SQL 2017 was...
2018-10-01
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Blog Posts
Missing Index Recommendations, These Are Not The Indexes You’re Looking For
Picture the scene….. DBA Doug is sitting in his cubicle minding his own business when App Dev Allister gives him...
2018-09-29
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Missing Index Recommendations, These Are Not The Indexes You're Looking For
Picture the scene….. DBA Doug is sitting in his cubicle minding his own business when App Dev Allister gives him...
2018-09-29
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Azure Cognitive Services – Vision APIs
In this final post of my Azure Cognitive Services week of Azure Every Day, I’ll focus on the Vision APIs...
2018-09-28
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Moving Objects to a New Schema
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-09-28 (first published: 2018-09-20)
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Native UTF-8 Support in SQL Server 2019: Savior or False Prophet?
(last updated: 2018-12-26 @ 16:20 EST / 2018-12-26 @ 21:20 UTC )
(NOTE: For recent update, please see “Update for CTP 2.2” section)
For some...
2018-09-28
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Off to #SQLSat Pittsburgh
I’ve never been to Pittsburgh. Actually, in all of my speaking and traveling, I don’t think I’ve even flown through...
2018-09-28
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Understanding a UK Keyboard for a US developer
One of the very interesting parts of my job is that I run into UK keyboards on a regular basis....
2018-09-28
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Azure Cognitive Services – Speech APIs
This week in my Azure Every Day posts, I’ve been focusing on Azure Cognitive Services and what these features can...
2018-09-27
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Do You Need a Relational Data Warehouse?
Are you looking to do a major update to your data warehouse or looking to modernize? Many technologies have come...
2018-09-27 (first published: 2018-09-11)
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Blogs
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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