Any database professional that has been around the Microsoft world for more than about 3 minutes will be familiar with the old, faithful sample dataset created and published by...
2019-09-02 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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Yesterday, some new views were made available in the Azure portal that will be helpful to those of us who create or manage Azure SQL resources. First, a new...
2019-09-03 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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We spread my Fathers ashes over the past weekend. It was one of the hardest things...
2019-09-06 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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Some 2019 tips for other SQLSat organizers from my last year as lead organizer of SQLSatBR. I hope as a fellow organizer, you can pull some ideas and inspiration...
2019-09-06 (first published: 2019-08-21)
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One of the powerful aspects of Query Store is the ability to directly query the DMVs for details of historical executions and performance. A key view for this is...
2019-09-04 (first published: 2019-08-21)
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Based on the great post and script from Wayne Sheffield I decided to try again pre-printing the SpeedPASS for everyone this year. I dislike the line of shame and...
2019-09-05 (first published: 2019-08-21)
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An exciting new feature in SQL Server 2019 is Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR). Resulting from a combination of magic beans and smart software developers (I might be wrong about...
2019-08-21
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In a previous post, I explained how to get Jenkins running in a container for your local CI work. In this one, I’ll expand on the process for database...
2019-08-30 (first published: 2019-08-21)
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I have an all day seminar I give called “DevOps for the DBA”. If you’re attending, thinking of attending, or you have attended, you might want to have the...
2019-08-21
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I have delivered a preconf on the biggest conference in Asia. The preconf was about Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning with bonus track about Semi-supervised solutions. This was really...
2019-08-21
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Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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