Before I complete my question let me provide context. I've received an alert saying that a specific database could not...

2017-10-04 (first published: 2017-09-26)

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Clustered vs Nonclustered: Index Fundamentals You Need To Know

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
How many times have you known that adding an index would improve query performance but you weren't exactly sure which type of index to add?
This happened to me all the time...

2017-09-26

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Deploy Dacpacs With PowerShell

by Richie Lee

Richie Lee's SQL Stuff

Final Addendum – use dbatools!
Addendum – There is a repo on GitHub which I wrote and recommend using for build/deployment of DACPACs....

2017-09-26

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Policy Based Management and Powershell

by iainthepitman

Datawarehouse: SQL Server and Stories

Introduction

Policy Based Management (PBM) can be used to inform DBAs when an incorrect setting is being used on a SQL...

2017-10-04 (first published: 2017-09-26)

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DELETE data on SQL Server HEAP table - Did you know...

by Cláudio Silva

Cláudio Silva

Before I complete my question let me provide context.
I’ve received an alert saying that a specific database could not allocate a new page (disk was full)
The message that you...

2017-09-26

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Query Azure CosmosDB from a SQL Server Linked Server

by Mr Fox SQL

Mr. Fox SQL

[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Recently I had a requirement to combine data that I already had in SQL Server (2016) with JSON document data already stored in...

2017-09-25

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