Azure SQL Database pricing
Pricing Azure SQL database is difficult because various database service tier options such as database transaction units (DTU’s), max database size,...
2016-04-22
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Where Is My Primary Replica Again?
We have many clients with multi-node Availability Groups - that is, AGs with more than two replicas. One of the problems...
2016-05-03 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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Power BI Service error: “This visual has unrecognized fields”
Recently I stumbled across a quite annoying error in the Power BI service. I uploaded two working reports from Power...
2016-05-03 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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Setting up powershell remote sessions
Hey guys, differing from usual this is a quick post on setting up powershell remote sessions. I know you can...
2016-05-02 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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How Two PASS Chapters Join Forces to Run One SQLSaturday In Orlando
We’re lucky enough to have two PASS chapters here in Orlando, oPASS and MagicPASS. Both in Orlando, but about 40...
2016-04-21
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Columnstore Indexes: Finally Awesome in SQL 2016
Columnstore indexes are amazing for optimizing the performance of large rowcount queries that would otherwise look like a SCAN operation in...
2016-04-21
662 reads
Broken Left Join
Here is a simple example of a LEFT JOIN that returns the sales stats for all employees under 21.
SELECT e.Name,...
2016-04-21
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Promotions and Conflicts of Interest
I noticed my co-worker, friend, and PASS board member, Grant Fritchey, posted a note on members of the PASS Board...
2016-04-21
558 reads
Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure
For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...
2016-04-21
534 reads
Loading Data into Clustered Columnstore Index with SSIS
I’m using a clustered columnstore index (CCI) on one of my fact tables at a client. The row size is...
2016-04-21
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Getting Database MaiL Profiles
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Question of the Day
Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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