Using the Sequence Object to Generate Reference Numbers
The SEQUENCE object was added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2012. It’s reasonably well known to DBAs, but less so...
2019-03-12 (first published: 2019-02-20)
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Proposed SQL Server defaults: disable lightweight pooling
A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL Server instances. Set...
2019-02-20
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Query Store Central Repository – Part 1
I’ve worked for SaaS companies for the last 6 years or so. So our queries are largely the same across...
2019-02-20
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Azure Key Vault Logging
Following up from last week’s post on Azure Key Vault in this blog I will show you how to the...
2019-02-20
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Using Power BI To Track My Activities
As a MS MVP one of the things you have to do is keep track of all the “things” you do for community, whether it be volunteering, organizing, speaking,...
2019-02-20
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Using Power BI To Track My Activities
As a MS MVP one of the things you have to do is keep track of all the “things” you...
2019-02-20
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Why do I (they) own that database?
Ever looked at the list of databases and wonder why you own one of them? Or why some other user...
2019-02-20
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SQL in the City 2019 in London
We’ve started setting up our SQL in the City Summits for 2019 and the first one is London on April...
2019-02-20
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Optimize for ad hoc VS single use plans
Yesterday’s post talked about single use plans. The statements I’m using are also called ad hoc queries. The alternative to...
2019-02-20
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Creating custom SQL Server Helm charts
In my previous post I went through how to deploy SQL Server to Kubernetes using Helm in which I used...
2019-03-07 (first published: 2019-02-20)
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