SQL Saturday Chicago: I’m speaking
If you’re in Chicago on March 17 and have some free time, why not check out all the cool kids?...
2018-02-19
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STORPORT: Reading an ETL trace
One of the things I enjoy most is diagnosing storage latency. I honestly couldn’t tell you why I enjoy it...
2018-03-05 (first published: 2018-02-19)
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Using a gMSA with SQL Server
As you already know, SQL Server runs as a service. And services require a service account to run under. While...
2018-03-02 (first published: 2018-02-19)
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Automating Database Deployment: Part 2 Setting Up the RoundhousE Environment
Remember from the introduction that RoundhousE is a command line driven database deployment engine. This article of the series will discuss the deployment flow and the RoundhousE environment, looking...
2018-02-19
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The default filegroup, and why you should care.
You know you can have multiple filegroups right? You might have a separate filegroup for the data (the clustered index...
2018-02-19
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Dealing with stress
Anyone who knows me will know that I’m something of a stress head. I tend to worry about things and...
2018-02-19
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How to create System-versioned temporal tables? – New database feature of SQL Server 2016
Creating a System-Versioned Temporal Table – There are three ways to create a system-versioned temporal table with regards to how the...
2018-02-19
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Distributing SSH User Keys via PowerShell
Folks in the Linux world are used to moving SSH keys to and from systems enabling password-less authentication. Let’s take a minute to look at what it takes to...
2018-02-18
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Distributing SSH User Keys via PowerShell
Folks in the Linux world are used to moving SSH keys to and from systems enabling password-less authentication. Let’s take...
2018-03-02 (first published: 2018-02-18)
6,523 reads
New Pluralsight Course – LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services
My new course “LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want...
2018-02-17
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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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BIT_COUNT() V
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