Copying your SQL Database
If you ever need to move a copy of a SQL database in Azure across servers then here is a...
2017-03-07
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All About SQL
Blog Challenge: I am watching you!
I decided to accept Grant’s (TheScaryDBA) challenge found here- http://www.scarydba.com/2017/03/02/random-blog-post-challenge/ where we have to write a technical blog post that incorporates a certain...
2017-03-03
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Tempdb settings in SQL Server 2016
A nice little error log feature that I noticed in SQL Server 2016 regarding tempdb. Tempdb, a system database in...
2017-03-02
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SQL Server Target vs Total Memory
For this blog post I want to discuss the meaning behind SQL Server: Memory Manager\Target Server Memory (KB) and SQL...
2017-03-01
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SSMS Presenter Mode
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) release candidate 17.0 RC2 works side-by-side with generally available releases (16.x), but it is not...
2017-02-22
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SQL Server vNext: sys.dm_db_stats_histogram
Since installing SQL Server vNext CTP 1.3 I found out that there is a new way to return statistics histogram...
2017-02-21
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Setting up SQL Server to SQL Database (Azure) Replication
I had a need to setup transactional replication from my SQL Server to SQL Database (Azure) where I only needed...
2017-02-20
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True story: Encryption in progress stuck
Working with a couple of databases that needed TDE I noticed when I enabled one of them that it was...
2017-02-16
375 reads
Azure Advisor Recommendations
Logging into the Azure portal is a daily task of mine and my eyes light up when I see features...
2017-02-15
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Lightweight Statistics Profiling (with a potential bug)
The great thing about new versions of SQL Server is the fact that they are packed full of new features...
2017-02-13
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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