Last Week Reading (2019-10-06)
Hello Azure/Power/BI/Data fella! Another two weeks passed very quickly and the new edition of Community conference in the UK is about to begin. Check whether you can attend one...
2019-10-06
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How I applied 13 cumulative updates in 12 minutes
Twitter is a strange place. I mean, aside from all the outrage practice and animal videos. Last week I sent out a tweet about how I used dbatools to...
2019-10-04
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How I applied 13 cumulative updates in 12 minutes
Twitter is a strange place. I mean, aside from all the outrage practice and animal videos. Last week I sent out a tweet about how I used dbatools to...
2019-10-09 (first published: 2019-10-04)
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The Future of Database Development at SQL Saturday #870–Memphis
I’m off to Memphis today for SQL Saturday #870. I’m excited as I’ve never been to Memphis and hope to wander around and see something while I’m there. I...
2019-10-04
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Interview with Joe Sack
This is the seventh interview we have done. This time our guest is Joe Sack! Joe is Principal Program Manager for Azure SQL Database with a focus on query...
2019-10-03
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Interview with Joe Sack
This is the seventh interview we have done. This time our guest is Joe Sack! Joe is Principal Program Manager for Azure SQL Database with a focus on query...
2019-10-11 (first published: 2019-10-03)
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Azure Storage Accounts – Open to the Internet?
Let’s get straight to the point. From official documentation it states that “To secure your storage account, you should first configure a rule to deny access to traffic from...
2019-10-03
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 10: RATIO_TO_REPORT
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to...
2019-10-02
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 10: RATIO_TO_REPORT
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to...
2019-10-10 (first published: 2019-10-02)
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Speaker at SQL Saturday# 912 – New York 2019
I’m very happy to announce that for the first time, I will be participating as speaker at the SQL Saturday# 912 in New York City! This event will be...
2019-10-02
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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