Azure Advisor – for Azure Data Platform
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could access one main dashboard / report that pulls in information from many tools such as security centre, SQL advisor and cost management...
2020-02-03
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Modernizing Your T-SQL: Splitting Strings
This is the first of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server.
Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL...
2020-02-03
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Last Week Reading (2020-02-02)
Hello. We have a beautiful date today, haven’t we? And LWR posts are coming back after a long one-month break. Press Columnstore Indexes – part 130 (“Columnstore Indexes on...
2020-02-02
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Last Week Reading (2020-02-02)
Hello. We have a beautiful date today, haven’t we? And LWR posts are coming back after a long one-month break. Press Columnstore Indexes – part 130 (“Columnstore Indexes on...
2020-02-02
12 reads
2020-02-02
11 reads
Slides & Links from SQL Saturday Cleveland
Thank you to everyone who came out to see my presentation Keys to a Healthy Relationship with SQL Server at SQL Saturday Cleveland. I had a great time and...
2020-02-02
16 reads
High Availability options for SQL Server 2008 in an Azure VM – a #sqlhelp story
I asked a question on Twitter yesterday: And check out the magic of the sqlhelp hash tag, I got loads of answers! So many that I’m actually selecting a...
2020-02-01
22 reads
Implementing HA on MSSQL Server (AlwaysOn Availability group)in an on-premise environment (Part 1)
I am very passionate about having a disaster recovery architecture, plan and strategy. This is very important for business continuity. I will be walking you through a journey on...
2020-02-01
64 reads
Implementing HA on MSSQL Server (AlwaysOn Availability group)in an on-premise environment (Part 1)
I am very passionate about having a disaster recovery architecture, plan and strategy. This is very important for business continuity. I will be walking you through a journey on...
2021-04-30 (first published: 2020-02-01)
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New Youtube Channel
Last year I noticed I was blogging way less than I should, in part because of new projects: work, personal stuff, local community activities, university projects... you name it.As...
2020-01-31
13 reads
Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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