Investigating Azure Databricks
At SQL Saturday #884 – Pensacola, I dropped into Rodney Ladrum’s session on Azure Databricks (ADB) and the Traditional DBA. I had heard a bit about Databricks, and read...
2019-07-17
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Understanding Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server Part 3
My last two blogs were on understanding columnstore and creating columnstore indexes. In this post, I will touch on one last topic, when to use columnstore indexes. As noted...
2019-08-05 (first published: 2019-07-17)
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Is it just me or does msdb feel a lot like a user database?
When you think of system databases, tables, etc there are a number of things you might think of. Necessary to ... Continue reading
2019-08-07 (first published: 2019-07-17)
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SQL Server 2019 Query Store And SSMS
While not specific to SQL Server 2019 (I was using this version to do some testing) I was struggling to find how to change the time period of analysis...
2019-07-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #116 Roundup – SQL on Linux
This month’s topic is wide open to anything you could think of that had to do with SQL on Linux from something technical on how to implement it or...
2019-07-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #116 Roundup – SQL on Linux
This month’s topic is wide open to anything you could think of that had to do with SQL on Linux from something technical on how to implement it or...
2019-07-17
17 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #116 Roundup – SQL on Linux
This month’s topic is wide open to anything you could think of that had to do with SQL on Linux from something technical on how to implement it or...
2019-07-17
40 reads
Adding a Column with a Default Constraint
Last week a question came up about adding a column to a table, and giving that column a default constraint. Would that default value be assigned to all existing...
2019-07-24 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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Painless Synchronization of Azure Blob Storage with AWS S3
Synchronization
Moving data between two cloud providers can be painful, and require more provider scripting if doing api calls. For this, you can benefit from a tool that abstracts the...
2019-07-16
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Rename Azure VM OS Disk
In a recent post about creating Azure VMs using PowerShell, I noted a common issue that I run into where the name of the OS disk does not conform...
2019-08-08 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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