I use Elastic database pools – for now
When you have many SQL databases that are required to run your environments and they show signs of specific usage...
2016-12-12 (first published: 2016-12-02)
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Hey Posh, Are My Services Running?–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-12-01
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Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is a really cool personalized recommendation engine that provides you with proactive best practices guidance on High Availability,...
2016-12-01
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Documenting databases
Open any book or article about database development and administration, and I can all but guarantee that you will find...
2016-12-01
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CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs
In this article I’ll show you how to eliminate periodic spikes in the CPU that are caused by the jobs that execute periodically. Figure 1 shows such a situation....
2016-12-01
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CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs
In this article I’ll show you how to eliminate periodic spikes in the CPU that are caused by the jobs that execute periodically. Figure 1 shows such a situation....
2016-12-01
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Problem where you can only browse Google websites
Note: not a SQL/BI related post like usual, but since it’s a common issue I want to share my solution...
2016-12-01
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CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs
In this article I’ll show you how to eliminate periodic spikes in the CPU that are caused by the jobs...
2016-12-01
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SSIS Data Flow "Sequence Containers" are Here!
Wooo!OK - maybe too much of a celebration... and I do have meatier topics in the article pipeline. However, I just stumbled across a feature in SSIS that I...
2016-12-01
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Azure pricing
Not a technical post today (not that I am technical) but still an important one. I have been using Azure...
2016-12-01
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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