Acids and Databases: A look at ACID and transactions
Relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL use transactions to allow concurrent users to...
2017-07-26
160 reads
Happy Belated 150th Birthday Canada, and the Importance of Compliance, Especially Vulnerability Assessments
Assess your vulnerabilities before a system compromise brings it all down: just like what wasn't done early morning on Zhiggy's...
2017-07-26
823 reads
DevOps–Fixing Poorly Named Constraints
I was building some code the other day and kept getting problems in my deployment for a change. The deployment...
2017-08-15 (first published: 2017-07-26)
1,757 reads
Performance is bad. Did you change anything recently? No. Are you sure?
Ever have this conversation?
Dev: Hey, can you help me? The performance on my application is terrible all of a sudden.
DBA:...
2017-08-11 (first published: 2017-07-26)
3,204 reads
Speaking at TechMentor – Redmond
I’ll be speaking at TechMentor, August 7-11 at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, TechMentor provides you with in-depth, immediately usable training that will keep...
2017-07-26
14 reads
Speaking at TechMentor – Redmond
I’ll be speaking at TechMentor, August 7-11 at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, TechMentor provides...
2017-07-26
319 reads
Automatically restarting Docker containers
One of the problems that I’ve encountered since moving my Dev/QA departments to using SQL Server within containers is that...
2017-08-10 (first published: 2017-07-26)
2,501 reads
Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 61 – Power KPI)
In this module you will learn how to use the Power KPI Custom Visual. The Power KPI displays your KPI...
2017-08-08 (first published: 2017-07-25)
2,170 reads
SSoL: Where are my data and log files?
I don’t think most of us need to know Linux, but if you end up managing a system, it’s good...
2017-07-25
716 reads
One SSMS Trick That Will Make You a Faster Query Builder
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Here's the scenario: you copy and paste some code into a query you are building. A few minutes later you need that same snippet...
2017-07-25
17 reads
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Forums
SQL Server Storage Optimization: Multiple Files in a Filegroup vs Dedicated File
Hello, I would like to get some feedback regarding the best storage optimization strategy...
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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