Snapshot Agent Acquires schema modification (SCH-M) lock on all the articles of a publication

As the business requirement, It is very common to see a request for adding a new article or subscription to...

Azure Cosmos DB – Partition and Throughput

In my previous article Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB, I mentioned Partition and Throughput only briefly. Adopting a good partition scheme...

Vote for a new SSMS feature: Pin files in SQL Server Management Studio

So, this just happened: That's a p good idea. I'll upvote it if you put it in User Voice. Or...

Questions from PASS Marathon Containers

Thanks to everyone who attended the PASS Marathon Containers edition and to PASS for the opportunity to present. I received the Questions from the session and wanted to provide...

Questions from PASS Marathon Containers

Thanks to everyone who attended the PASS Marathon Containers edition and to PASS for the opportunity to present. I received...

Upcoming Live Podcast Recording Sessions: Employee Agreements and Contracts for DBAs and Devs

I’ve just scheduled two new podcast recording sessions! These are live, half hour sessions – you can join in listen, or share comments. Here’s what we’ll be talking about…....

Power BI: Dataflows

Dataflows, previously called Common Data Service for Analytics as well as Datapools, will be in preview soon and I wanted to explain in this blog what it is and...

Power BI: Dataflows

Dataflows, previously called Common Data Service for Analytics as well as Datapools, will be in preview soon and I wanted...

Youtube Channel Update: 3 August 2018

I’ve posted a number of new videos to the Youtube channel that might be of interest if you’re a data...

Evening or morning poll results!

And the results of the poll are in!

Evening just scraping it! So there’s a pretty even mix out there, interesting....