When I first started working with SQL on Linux one of the first things I did was to remove the default the [BUILTINAdministrators] login. This is pretty much standard...
2023-12-27 (first published: 2023-12-15)
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nementia – n. the post-distraction effort to recall the reason you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, trying to retrace your sequence of thoughts like a kid gathering...
2023-12-15
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I got this question from an account rep: if a customer is using SQL Prompt and a snippet, for example AT, that was also used as an alias, is...
2024-01-01 (first published: 2023-12-13)
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I presented “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” at Cloudbrew and “How I saved 80% on my ADF costs” as a lightning talk at Data Meetup Groningen. Both slidedecks can be...
2023-12-13
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I’m seeing a lot of excitement from customers over Microsoft Fabric, now that it GA’d a few weeks ago. One thing that is generating a lot of that excitement...
2023-12-18 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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I wrote about arrays in PowerShell last week, but I realized one of the things I did while experimenting was look up how to run code a line at...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-11)
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Recently a customer asked how they could get index changes to be captured in Flyway Desktop. In their case, they wanted a different fill factor, but I decided to...
2023-12-08
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giltwrights – n. the imaginary committee of elders that keeps a running log of your mistakes, steadily building their case that you’re secretly a fraud, a coward, a doofus,...
2023-12-08
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In this post, I discuss about not forgetting to allow for additional head room when planning out new hardware, especially for HA/DR needs.
The post Accounting for Virtualization Head Room...
2023-12-07
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By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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