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
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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