Studying Failures
Over the weekend, I went to the local theater to watch Sully, the movie about the US Airways pilot who...
2016-10-05 (first published: 2016-09-26)
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Nil to Speaker: Improving your PowerPoint skills
As I work on my speaking skills one of my tasks is improve my PowerPoint presentations. To that end I’ve...
2016-09-26
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Future DBA – Hadoop Big Data 1
In our last blog on Hadoop Big Data we have discussed about Hadoop and its tools/utility to connect to HDFS. on...
2016-09-26
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SQL SSRS Express Edition Cannot Connect to Azure SQL Databases
This has bit a couple of clients recently, figured I'd put out a PSA.
Express editions of SQL Server Reporting Service,...
2016-10-04 (first published: 2016-09-25)
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PowerShell, Pester and Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution
If you are a SQL DBA you will have heard of Ola Hallengrens Maintenance solution If you haven’t go and...
2016-10-04 (first published: 2016-09-24)
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Order by Month Number and Show Month Name
This may feel very
simple to many developers and yes it is, but I saw this request somewhere in community
website.So thought...
2016-09-24
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11 years of PASS Summit
This is a story of my 11-year association with PASS, and the many ways it helped me grow as a...
2016-09-23
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Announcing SQLSaturday Portugal Lisbon-Edition 2017
With just 1 week until SQLSaturday Portugal Porto 2016, I am glad to share that we have SQLSaturday Lisbon 2017...
2016-09-23
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Think Using .. In Code Is A Time Saver? Think Again!
Ok, so what is this 4 part naming convention? It is the way the SQL Server (and other DBs out...
2016-09-23
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I'm Back!
I've been gone... wow. Since March 31st of this year?! Let's fix that.
So what has been holding me back?
Kids? I...
2016-09-23
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Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
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...
Forums
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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