Which Columns Are Looked Up?
A common issue in performance is the lookup, key or RID, but the question frequently asked is, which columns are looked up? You need to know in order to...
2022-02-07 (first published: 2022-01-24)
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Daily Coping 24 Jan 2022
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...
2022-01-24
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Introducing ScriptDOM
I’ve been meaning to get a series of blog posts started on this topic. A twitter conversation from yesterday finally pushed me to it. Last year, I was tasked...
2022-02-04 (first published: 2022-01-24)
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Data Thoughts – Microsoft Exams and Simulations
G’day, I’ve based my career around Microsoft products on the Data Platform. The first product that I seriously learnt was Microsoft SQL Server back around 2000. I was lucky...
2022-01-23
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Daily Coping 21 Jan 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...
2022-01-21
52 reads
Using dbachecks for CIS Security Checks
Well back at the end of 2019 I finished writing most of the checks related to the CIS Center for Internet Security requirements. I have yet to write a...
2022-02-02 (first published: 2022-01-21)
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How to tell if Change Data Capture (CDC) is working as expected
I’m not sure how many of you use Change Data Capture (CDC) on your instances, but I’ve had to support it for a while now and I thought I’d...
2022-01-20
472 reads
Daily Coping 20 Jan 2022
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...
2022-01-20
48 reads
Trusting the Fine Print or connecting Azure Data Factory with Salesforce
(2022-Jan-19) David Eldersveld once said that a “cool solution is a completely insecure solution” - David Eldersveld on Twitter. That puzzled me, but only for a little while, since I...
2022-01-31 (first published: 2022-01-20)
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Creating a new User-Defined Data Type–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I ran across a question on user-defined data...
2022-01-19
88 reads
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Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
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...
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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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