A Summit Contest for registering by Sept 22
If you haven’t registered for the 2018 PASS Summit and plan to go, you might press to get registration done...
2018-09-17
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Blog Posts
Azure SQL Database Read Scale-Out
Read Scale-Out is a little-known feature that allows you to load balance Azure SQL Database read-only workloads using the capacity of...
2018-09-17 (first published: 2018-09-05)
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Deleting a User that Owns a Schema
This was an interesting question I saw posted recently. Through SQL Server 2000, trying to delete a user that owned...
2018-09-17
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How do I grant permissions to view users and their permissions?
tl;dr; VIEW DEFINITION
Every now and again you’ll have a user that needs to be able to see what permissions other...
2018-09-17
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Interview Query – 1
Somewhere on internet i found this question. Thought to share it with you all.
We have two tables, school_students and Class_student.
...
2018-09-17 (first published: 2018-09-04)
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Learn about SQL Source Control in Redgate University
I love the SQL Source Control product from Redgate. It’s not perfect, and it can be slow to run at...
2018-09-17
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Query Store and Log Backups
A question that came up recently around Query Store is what happens when there are log backups in use on...
2018-09-17
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SQL Substring function in SQL Server
The requirement of data refactoring is very common and vital in data mining operations. In the previous article, you’ll learn...
2018-09-17
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Batching data manipulation is great as long as you do it correctly
As Sinatra was fond of singing, “regrets, I’ve had a few.” And one of those came this week immediately after my presentation. This isn’t to say the presentation didn’t...
2018-09-15
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New Pluralsight Course – Provisioning Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
My new course “Provisioning Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right...
2018-09-15
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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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