Primary Replica Jobs
This post talks about having primary replica jobs. That is, jobs that will only run on the primary replica of...
2018-04-02
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Migrating to Azure DBaaS – A Client’s Steps Taken to the Cloud – Part 2
Hello everybody! Thanks for stopping by again. In Part 1 of this series, I gave the background of the project, and...
2018-04-02
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Podcast: Myths of Modern Data Management
As part of the Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders by the Eckerson Group, I did a 30-minute podcast with Wayne Eckerson where I...
2018-04-02
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Podcast: Myths of Modern Data Management
As part of the Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders by the Eckerson Group, I did a 30-minute podcast with Wayne Eckerson where I...
2018-04-02
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Buggy Whips 2.0
I recently found myself rereading a very old blog post of mine, from the very beginning of this blog, discussing...
2018-04-02
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Free Webinar – DBAs vs. SysAdmins in Cloud Availability April 19
SIOS and I are proud to host a joint free webinar entitled “DBAs vs. SysAdmins in Cloud Availability” on Thursday,...
2018-04-02
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SQL Homework – April 2018 – Indexes
This month we are going to look at a topic near and dear to both database developers and database administrators...
2018-04-02
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Jacksonville, South Florida, and Houston
Just crossed off my quarterly goal of planning SQLSaturday attendance for the next quarter (I’m writing this on March 31st!)....
2018-04-02
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Imposter syndrome
Last week I posted the following “joke” on twitter: –
I’ve called it a “joke” but I wasn’t really joking. This...
2018-04-02
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How SQL Compilation Can Prove the Server CPU
It is relatively easy to spot CPU-bound system. But, the source of CPU pressure is not always easy to pinpoint....
2018-04-02
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Blogs
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....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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