Upcoming Performance Tuning Webcast
On September 13, 2018, at 3 PM Eastern (USA), I’ll be giving a webcast for MSSQLTips.com on finding and correcting...
2018-08-28
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Blog Posts
What is Automatic Tuning in Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has long given us DBA tools and suggestions to help tune databases, to fix queries with indexes, and many...
2018-08-28
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Advantages of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Deployment Model
Are you just starting out with Azure and wonder: What is Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Deployment Model? Or what’s the...
2018-08-27
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Copying formatted text out of a grid column.
I was reading a post today by Bert Wagner (b/t).
Displaying Long Variable Values in SQL Server
By the way, if...
2018-08-27
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SQL Server Encryption, What’s The Key Hierarchy All About?
I’m sure that we all know that SQL Server includes all sorts of interesting functionality to allow us to encrypt...
2018-08-27 (first published: 2018-08-09)
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SQLCLR vs SQL Server 2017, Part 8: Is SQLCLR Deprecated in Favor of Python or R (sp_execute_external_script)?
(last updated: 2019-01-10 @ 18:00 EST / 2019-01-10 @ 23:00 UTC )
With the additional (and annoying) configuration step required to get SQLCLR Assemblies...
2018-08-27 (first published: 2018-08-09)
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Two Posts About PASS
I’m a little late getting to this, but I think both of these are worth reading:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-pass-group-leaders-sql-saturday-steve-rezhener-mba/https://medium.com/@SteffLocke/sqlsaturdays-shouldnt-give-up-pass-money-a478a97ee0c7Suggest you post any thoughts...
2018-08-27
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Why I Love Extended Events, Reason 394: Customize Live Data
There are so many reasons to love Extended Events that it can really be overwhelming, but, one more reason that...
2018-08-27
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Azure Every Day, Azure Data Week, and More Azure
As you likely know, I am a Principal Consultant at Pragmatic Works. This year we have been doing some great...
2018-08-25
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Bringing DevOps to #SQLSat Oslo
As my kids get older and I spend less time with them, I look forward to visiting new countries. While...
2018-08-24
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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