Azure Cosmos DB Free Trial – walk through of Gremlin API for Graph
After the 2018 Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft announced a free trial of Azure Cosmos DB. For those who are eager...
2018-10-12 (first published: 2018-10-01)
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Blog Posts
I’m Speaking – Denver Dev Day Fall 2018
Denver Dev Day Fall 2018 is a free event organized by volunteers and hosted at the Microsoft campus in the DTC. It’s a full day to learn from industry...
2018-10-12
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It’s a wrap – SQL Saturday Denver #774
SQL Saturday Denver #774 has come and gone. It’s hard to believe how quick things went – well there were a...
2018-10-12
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The Developer’s Guide to Azure–A Good Overview
Someone sent me a link a few weeks back about a free book from Microsoft. It’s the Developer’s Guide to...
2018-10-12 (first published: 2018-10-03)
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Auto-Scaling Azure SQL DB
When I was presenting my Azure SQL Database session at DataRelay (used to be SQLRelay) I was asked (over coffee)...
2018-10-11
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Power BI Dashboards, Reports, and Datasets with the SQL Chefs
This week I had the opportunity to learn about dashboards, reports, and datasets in Power BI using the best kind...
2018-10-11 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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The SQL Agents’ view of SQL Server
I recently came across a really odd issue with the SQL Agent, there were two agent jobs attached to one...
2018-10-11 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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Which is faster? IN (list) or IN (SELECT FROM Temp)
If you’ve done much with IN (list) then you’ve realized that it basically translates out to
col=val1 OR col=val2 OR...
2018-10-11
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Adaptive Joins and Join Hints
At a recent all-day seminar on query performance tuning I was asked a question that I didn’t know the answer...
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-10-01)
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CCI – Data Loading considerations with Partitioned Tables and CCI
Introduction
In this blog post, I would like to describe two case scenarios of bulk loading data, using SSIS, into a...
2018-10-10
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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