Two more of my presentations
I recently made available two more presentations that you might find helpful. Feel free to download them and present them to others (adding a line that you got them...
2019-04-04
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MAXDOP, Parallelism and the Cloud
Parallelism and MAXDOP The pros and cons of parallelism have always been with us in SQL Server and I blogged about this a couple of years ago. This is...
2019-04-18 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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It’s a UNIX system. I know this.
Jurassic Park was a great film. Steven Spielberg brought technology into the film era in a major way with computer generated dinosaurs and some now-classic film lines, many of...
2019-04-03
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Speaker at 24 Hours of PASS – 20 Years of PASS
I’m very happy to announce that for the very first time I will be participating as speaker in the 24 hours of PASS event. This specific instance of 24...
2019-04-03
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SQL Homework – April 2019 – Practice dealing with corruption
Over the last almost 2 years (wow how time flys when you are having fun) we’ve practiced all kinds of ... Continue reading
2019-04-17 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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What’s a Key Lookup?
One of the easiest things to fix when performance tuning queries are Key Lookups or RID Lookups. The key lookup operator occurs when the query optimizer performs an index...
2019-04-17 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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SQL in the City Streamed is Today
You can still register, but join me later today for SQL in the City Streamed, along with Grant, Kathi, and Kendra. We’re all in the Redgate Software office today...
2019-04-03
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File and file group method testing for VLDB very large database
File and file group VLDB very large database....
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2019-04-03
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Validation activity in Azure Data Factory - Traffic light of your operational workflow
(2019-Apr-02) Last week Microsoft introduced a new Validation activity task to the Azure Data Factory (ADF) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-validation-activity Initially, I was confused by its name, thinking that it would help me...
2019-04-16 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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Isolation Levels in SQL Server
Do your eyes start to cross whenever you think about isolation levels? Mine did, too. Here's how I keep it all straight.
2019-04-03
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
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...
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Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers