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Snowflake in Azure

Being aligned to a global cloud like Microsoft Azure you have choices. Whether that is Azure SQL Database or Azure Database for MySQL for your relational database, it does not matter...

2021-04-12

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Error creating Azure SQL Database

A quick post today, quite simply, the error message is: “code”: “ConflictingDatabaseOperation”,  “message”: “Operation on server x and database y is in progress.  Please wait a few minutes before trying again.” What is going on here? Well for this example (and maybe yours) I created a database...

2021-04-16 (first published: )

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SQL server BIGINT

It has been a while since I wrote a blog post for TSQL Tuesday and there is no better time then now following on from Brent Ozar’s Invite about...

2021-03-09

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The Hidden Cost of MAXDOP: CPU Spikes, Query Slowdowns, and What We Learned

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Using Heaps

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Using Heaps

When does Microsoft recommend using a heap as a table structure (no clustered index)?

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