Catching Up on The #SQLPASS Virtual Chapters

(Didn't realize until I was posting that this was my 100th post...whew!)

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A few months ago we purchased a new "smart"...

MDW Data Collector – Collection Set jobs not working

ERROR :
Error Message 1 :
Executed as user: Domain\UserName. SSIS error. Component name: DFT – Upload collection snapshot, Code: -1071636372, Subcomponent: RFS...

10 SQL Server Data Warehouse Design Best Practices to Follow (Part 1 )

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of speaking at SQL Saturday #552 here in beautiful Jacksonville, Florida. My good...

Query Store, Forced Plans, and New Plans

I love questions. I recently received one about new plans in the Query Store (available in Azure SQL Database now and in...

RAID your backups

Let’s start with a very brief definition of some RAID levels.
RAID 0 : Stripe your data across multiple disks. Writing a...

Continual Deployment of Visual Studio SqlProj

Unveil the inner workings of the esoteric build system...
As a data professional, I've never worked extensively with msbuild or other...

DBA Database scripts are on Github

It started with a tweet from Dusty

The second session I presented at the fantastic PowerShell Conference Europe was about using the...

SQL Server – Change in Identity() Property during transactions

Recently while working on a scenario I found that in case of transaction if you are doing insertion operation on...

Tempdb Metadata Contention in SQL Server – Table Variable Vs Temporary Table

In SQL Server, the concurrent creation of temporary tables from many sessions can lead to tempdb metadata contention. Tempdb metadata contention does not affect the concurrent creation of table...

AlwaysOn Availability Groups Synchronous Replica Readable Secondary Data Access Latency

With SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, when you configure a secondary in synchronous-commit mode for read-only access, there can be data access latency. If you make changes to your...