SQL Server on VMware VMworld USA Videos Now On YouTube
I just realized that our two SQL Server on VMware sessions that I co-presented on Tuesday at VMworld USA, both of which made the top...
2017-09-14 (first published: 2017-09-06)
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Connect Windows 10 client to a VPN on Windows Server 2012 R2
I got a strange request in a Slack channel the other day. A colleague in South Africa, who uses Windows,...
2017-09-06
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Toolbox - IO, IO, Why are You So Slow?
This is the next in a series of blogs I am going to create talking about useful tools (mostly scripts)...
2017-09-13 (first published: 2017-09-06)
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Database Fundamentals #9: Schemas As Containers
Schemas are a very useful tool for managing the objects in your database. From security through process, through placement, schemas...
2017-09-14 (first published: 2017-09-06)
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CALCULATE and FILTER: A Love Story?
There have already been many posts/articles/books written about the subject of how CALCULATE and FILTER works, so I’m not going...
2017-09-13 (first published: 2017-09-06)
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Please Don’t Do This!
Please, please, please Admins do not leave your default index fill factor at 0. This means you are telling SQL...
2017-09-18 (first published: 2017-09-06)
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Dynamic Threshold for Statistic Update - SQL Server 2016
By default, on a SQL Server Database, statistics are updated automatically when one hits a threshold of changes. If the...
2017-09-19 (first published: 2017-09-06)
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Exploring the Kubernetes dashboard in Azure Container Services
Last week I went through how to run SQL Server in Kubernetes on Azure Container Services (ACS)
This week I want...
2017-09-06
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TSQL2sday #94 Lets get all Posh!
Write-Output "What are you going to automate today?"
Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday for September 2017!
T-SQL Tuesday is a chance for you...
2017-09-05
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Game Night is Back at the Summit
Last year Andy Warren and I worked out a deal with the PASS organization to sponsor a game night on...
2017-09-05
782 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
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
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...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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