Agile Development – A DBA’s Initial Thoughts
I recently had the opportunity to attend a three day Agile development workshop. At a very high level, Agile development...
2015-08-26
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Adam Kreul | Blog
Studying for the 70-462 Exam: Database Mirroring
If we could take a picture of the HA solutions currently offered in SQL Server, database mirroring would be the...
2015-08-27 (first published: 2015-08-18)
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10 Signs You’re Enjoying Your DBA Career Too Much
Most database professional recognize they have a good career path, and mostly enjoy the work they do. It’s possible to cross the...
2015-08-11
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Credentials and Proxies: Getting Started
If you’ve been a DBA for more than a day, you probably have a pretty good idea of what a...
2015-08-04
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SQL Server Audit: Getting Started
SQL Server has the ability to monitor both server and database level events via the SQL Server Audit feature. Audited...
2015-08-06 (first published: 2015-07-28)
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4 Things You’ll Need Before Installing a Failover Cluster Instance
Your servers are either provisioned or racked, your sys admin has taken care of installing the Failover Clustering feature and...
2015-05-25
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The Case for Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads
I recently was involved in a discussion about whether or not to enable the ‘Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads’ server...
2015-05-19
823 reads
Taking (and passing!) the 70-461 Exam and Pursuing My MCSE Certification
Last week, I took the 70-461: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 exam. I decided recently to try and achieve getting...
2015-05-12
797 reads
Better Together: Reduced Run Time and I/O
The run-time metric gets all the love, and for good reason. It’s easily witnessed by end users and the one...
2015-04-29
1,049 reads
Use the WordPress Revision Counter to Keep Shipping Posts
I haven’t been at this blogging thing an extremely long time, and I certainly haven’t been as consistent as I’ve...
2015-03-24
710 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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The New World Of AI Robots
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Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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