Leveling Up for Sales and Marketing
I’m heading to Austin today for Redgate’s internal Level Up conference. This is designed to help employees improve their skills in some way. The original ones focused on technology...
2023-05-15
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Microsoft Digital Event Pre-Show: Azure FastTrack, Power BI CAT, & Azure Synapse Analytics PG
Next week is Microsoft Build and there is a Microsoft Digital Event occurring on May 24 - 25 starting at 9 AM Pacific Time for a live simulcast with a lot...
2023-05-15
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 05-08-2023 Mother's Day, Big News for MS Build, & the recap
Hello Dear Reader!! We also have some really, really, BIG NEWS for next week! It also happens that next week is Microsoft Build, make sure to register for free! But...
2023-05-15
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TDE: Database Backups and High Availability
Database backups continue to work without change when you have TDE enabled. The only difference is that the backups contain encrypted data that cannot be read without the certificate...
2023-05-15
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Techorama Slides – Analyze Cosmos DB Data with Synapse Link
I’ve uploaded the slides for my session at Techorama to Github.
The post Techorama Slides – Analyze Cosmos DB Data with Synapse Link first appeared on Under the kover of...
2023-05-15
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A New Word: Vemödalen
vemoödalen – the fear that originality is no longer possible I used to worry about this, and often I thought that I’d run out of original things to do....
2023-05-12
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The Importance of SQL Server Performance Tuning in the Cloud
Make sure your cloud SQL Server databases are optimized and achieve significant cost savings.
2023-05-12
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Implementing Temporal Tables Where You Have Existing Data
An in-depth look at how you convert an existing table with data to a system versioned table that will maintain a history of changes.
2023-05-11
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New Stars of Data – SQL Bad Practices caught in the Wild
At the 12th of May 2023, a new edition of New Stars of Data takes place. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s a free virtual event focusing...
2023-05-12 (first published: 2023-05-11)
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What Backups Are In This File?–#SQLNewBlogger
I had a question on multiple backups in a file and had to check my syntax. This post shows how to see which backups are in a file. Note:...
2023-05-24 (first published: 2023-05-10)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #201 Invitation: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By ReviewMyDB
My T-SQL Tuesday #201 invitation. Do temp tables help performance or hurt it? I...
Monday Monitor Tips: The MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, and pressing on...
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
Forums
Test topic for spam filtering
A new thread for testing the spam filter. Adding a link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather
Removing production permissions when restoring database to non-prod
Hello experts, An application team has asked us to modify a SQL Agent job....
Advanced T-SQL: Replacing Slow Cursors with Window Functions
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Advanced T-SQL: Replacing Slow Cursors...