Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 4 - JOINS
This is a bit of a longer one, a look at how to do all the different joins and the exciting thing for MSSQL developers is that we get...
2021-02-05 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Recovering Data from a Backup with SQL Data Compare
I had a customer recently ask about how to recover data from a backup file. I believe the request was for SQL Backup, but I knew there was another...
2021-02-02 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Data Lakehouse defined
As a follow-up to my blog Data Lakehouse & Synapse, I wanted to talk about the various definitions I am seeing about what a data lakehouse is, including a...
2021-01-25
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Data Lakehouse defined
As a follow-up to my blog Data Lakehouse & Synapse, I wanted to talk about the various definitions I am seeing about what a data lakehouse is, including a...
2021-02-02 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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SELECT * Hurts Performance, Badly
Quite a few years ago, I wrote a post about SELECT * and performance. That post had a bit of a click-bait title (freely admitted). I wrote the post...
2021-02-01 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Daily Coping 25 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...
2021-01-25
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Upgrading Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Solution with dbatools
While presenting Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools at ONDT, I mentioned a caveat with the -ReplaceExisting switch for Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution. This switch drops all of the objects installed by...
2021-01-25
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Speaking about Latches & Spinlocks at the EightKB Online Conference
This Wednesday I have the pleasure to speak about Latches, Spinlocks, and Latch Free Data Structures at the EightKB Online Conference. This year they are expecting more than 1500 attendees and...
2021-01-25
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Speaking about Latches & Spinlocks at the EightKB Online Conference
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-01-25
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Speaking about Latches & Spinlocks at the EightKB Online Conference
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-01-25
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Blogs
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...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Palantir is an American software platform that brings together business data from different sources...
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Packing and Decoding Device Status Codes with LEFT_SHIFT() and RIGHT_SHIFT() in SQL Server
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SQL Server Audit Failures
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SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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