Azure Databricks – The Notebook
Data engineers, pipe line developers, general data enthusiasts will be spending most of their time within a notebook. Here you develop your code, nice visualisations and commentary boxes are...
2020-10-14
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All About SQL
Azure Databricks Overview
I have spent many long weekends getting stuck into Azure Databricks, plenty of time to understand the core functionality from mounting storage, streaming data, knowing the delta lake and...
2020-10-06
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Backups for Azure SQL Virtual Machines
When it comes to database backups for IaaS based Azure SQL Servers you have 3 options. Automated Backups, both V1 and V2 depending on the SQL Server version. Azure...
2020-09-16
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Automating DBCC CHECKDB for Azure SQL DB with Azure Functions
Warning, this is a longer post from me than usual. The title is a mouthful and so is this post. In the past I have linked to blog posts...
2020-09-09
318 reads
Azure SQL Database for the DBA
Last month I gave a presentation to The PASS Hybrid VG https://hybrid.pass.org/. Now is a good time to become “cloud ready” as a DBA and my presentation gives a...
2020-09-03
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Azure SQL Database – Read Only Endpoints
One of the main benefits of configuring active geo-replication for Azure SQL Database is leveraging the read-only endpoint, a good technique to split away read only activity from OLTP...
2020-08-25
148 reads
Azure SQL – Advanced Data Security [video]
A quick 2 minute overview video (from me) about ADS – Advanced Data Security. The unified package from Microsoft providing the ability to discover / classifying sensitive data, mitigate...
2020-08-19
24 reads
Azure Database Administrator
Recently I found out that I passed the BETA exam for Azure Database Administrator Associate qualification. I wanted to share with you my thoughts on the exam and if...
2020-08-11
30 reads
Azure SQL Database – Maxdop Updated
About 1.5 years I wrote about MAXDOP setting within Azure SQL DB, more specifically the fact that the default setting being 0. (https://blobeater.blog/2018/09/12/maxdop-and-azure-sql-db/) Now, you should be aware that...
2020-08-10
294 reads
Azure SQL Training
I thought being an Azure Data/Database blogger I would share some amazing content from Microsoft, an Azure SQL Fundamentals learning path. Following this training you will “Learn how to...
2020-08-05
57 reads
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...
Forums
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You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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