Daily Coping 12 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to start your day with the most important thing on your to-do list. I’m writing this on 11 Oct. The most important thing today is...
2022-10-12
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Snowflake Key Pair Authentication
Snowflake does a great job on documenting the key pair process using bash for Linux environments. That’s great, but what if you need to work within a windows environment...
2022-10-12
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How to use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to replicate a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) that uses SIOS DataKeeper for cluster storage
Intro So you have built a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI), or maybe an SAP ASCS/ERS cluster in Azure. Each node of the cluster resides in a different...
2022-10-24 (first published: 2022-10-12)
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Query Store at PASS Data Community Summit
While Query Store has been out for quite some time now, released in 2016, there’s still quite a lot of missing understanding of what Query Store can do for...
2022-10-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #155–Using Dynamic SQL for SQLCMD
It’s that time of month, and I’m the host this month. I wrote the invitation last week and now its’ time to answer. I’m actually using an example from...
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-11)
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Daily Coping 11 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to take a small step towards a goal that matters to you. I’ve been working on a coaching certification. I don’t really need it, but...
2022-10-11
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Comments in your generated code : T-SQL Tuesday #155
The ever amazing Steve Jones (blog|twitter) is our host this month. And in case you didn’t know he also is ... Continue reading
2022-10-24 (first published: 2022-10-11)
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Overcoming a storage failover issue with SQL Server on Kubernetes using Portworx
In a previous post I talked about an issue with storage failover when a Kubernetes node goes offline. In a nutshell, the issue is that the attachdetach-controller in Kubernetes...
2022-10-19 (first published: 2022-10-11)
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Snowflake Warehouses
Everyone has heard of scaling up and scaling out compute. Have you ever heard about a term called scaling across? Before Snowflake, I never. Scaling up and down is...
2022-10-11
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Check Every Metric
Recently, a person asked about the costs differences in an execution plan, referencing them as if they were performance measures. The key to understanding performance is to check every...
2022-10-10
22 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
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...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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