2021 a year in review
No matter where you are in the world the last couple of years have been, shall we say, difficult. More ... Continue reading
2021-12-30
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2021 a year in review
No matter where you are in the world the last couple of years have been, shall we say, difficult. More ... Continue reading
2022-01-07 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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When You Can’t Change the Connected Git Repo on ADF
I was working on an Azure Data Factory project for a client who is new to ADF, and there was a miscommunication about the new Git Repo to be...
2022-01-10 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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Queries that Fail and How to find Them
Queries will fail. That is as inevitable as death and taxes. This article demonstrates how to find some truly horrible queries.
The post Queries that Fail and How to find...
2021-12-29
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Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient
This article demonstrates a more comprehensive method to audit changes to statistics. This method involves the use of Extended Events.
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2021-12-29
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Distributed SQL
A very brief history of databases for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads starts with relational databases (RDBMS), which worked well for many years. With the advent of the internet and...
2022-01-07 (first published: 2021-12-29)
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And that’s a wrap
It’s the final week of 2021, a year that was both twice as long and half the length of 2020. If you can, please make sure you are vaccinated...
2021-12-29
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Daily Coping 29 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-29
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A (big) SQLPackage caveat
Context I had a request to help with a database from a third-party vendor which uses a lot of FullText-Search (FTS) catalogs. I have to say that I just...
2021-12-29
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Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient
This article demonstrates a more comprehensive method to audit changes to statistics. This method involves the use of Extended Events.
The post Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient first appeared...
2021-12-28
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Blogs
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What?
By SQLPals
SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What? On...
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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