Epic Life Quest – looking back
This will be my last post for the year. In this am going to look back on goals I set...
2018-12-03
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Three tips to help your database team avoid burn out this holiday season
As you’re enjoying the festivities this month, spare a thought for your database administrators and IT teams. It’s one of the busiest and most stressful times of the year...
2018-12-03
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Three tips to help your database team avoid burn out this holiday season
As you’re enjoying the festivities this month, spare a thought for your database administrators and IT teams. It’s one of...
2018-12-03
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Getting SQL Services, Starting, Stopping and Restarting them with dbatools
There was a question in the #dbatools slack channel
Getting dbatools
dbatools enables you to administer SQL Server with PowerShell. To get...
2018-12-03
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Turbo Charged Staging\Caching Tables With In Memory OLTP
Since SQL 2012 some really awesome new technologies have been introduced into the engine that are massively underused. Everyone is...
2018-12-19 (first published: 2018-12-03)
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We Speak Linux – OpenSSH For Windows Pros
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at this months We Speak Linux Webinar. Each month We Speak Linux brings cross platform training to the Windows world....
2018-12-02
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We Speak Linux – OpenSSH For Windows Pros
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at this months We Speak Linux Webinar. Each month We Speak...
2018-12-02
190 reads
Failovers can’t serve two masters
As I’m sure you’re aware, the career path for a SQL Server DBA is a wonderful journey of growing your catalog of knowledge through unexpected lessons. For example: Did...
2018-12-02
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Failovers can’t serve two masters
As I’m sure you’re aware, the career path for a SQL Server DBA is a wonderful journey of growing your catalog of knowledge through unexpected lessons. For example: Did...
2018-12-02
17 reads
Last week reading (2018-12-02)
Hello folks, This is a quick roundup of Internet posts from last week. Have a good reading! Create and configure...
2018-12-02
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers