T-SQL Tuesday #97 – Setting learning goals for 2018
This is my first opportunity hosting a T-SQL Tuesday and am super excited!!T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of well respected SQL Guru...
2017-12-04
954 reads
Book Review – The Biml Book
After years of waiting, a book about Biml has been published! It’s conveniently titled “The Biml Book” (subtitled Business Intelligence and...
2017-12-04
884 reads
The Myth Of Tomorrow
“We’ll fix it in the mix.”
“It’s good enough for right now.”
“We’ll worry about that later.”
“Your check is in the mail.”
Of...
2017-12-04
736 reads
Configure Always on AG with SQL 2017
One of the new features that we have with SQL 2017 is that you no longer need a Windows cluster...
2017-12-04
24,957 reads
System.ConsoleColor error while running powershell in SQL agent job step
Issue: While running powershell in SQL agent job step, I am getting below error: –
A job step received an error...
2017-12-04
997 reads
Enterprise Analysis Services Development: Interview with Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo
Between sessions at the PASS Summit, I had the privilege of interviewing Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo; SSAS Maestros and...
2017-12-03
429 reads
A Novel Idea for High Availability in SQL Server on Linux
Over the past year we’ve learned about how SQL Server on Linux is implemented, leveraging SQLPAL and the team is pretty confident in their architectural decisions as indicated in this...
2017-12-02
4 reads
A Novel Idea for High Availability in SQL Server on Linux
Over the past year we’ve learned about how SQL Server on Linux is implemented, leveraging SQLPAL and the team is pretty...
2017-12-02
460 reads
Azure Virtual Machine + Premium Disk Throughput Calculator
I keep having to refer to the virtual machine size page and the disks pricing page to work out how...
2017-12-02
376 reads
Azure Virtual Machine + Premium Disk Throughput Calculator
UPDATE: I haven’t been keeping it up to date so deprecated it - if you find something like this useful moan at microsoft and get them to implement it!
I...
2017-12-02
11 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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