New Year Aspirations – Gavin Payne – MCA
Thanks for agreeing to do this Gavin. It’s great to be able to interview an MCA as there are so...
2013-01-23
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Saving Execution Plans on Azure SQL Database
In my previous post showing how to get to execution plans in the Database Management Portal, I showed that it’s...
2013-01-23
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IsMSShipped
I just wanted to do a brief highlight of a handy little object property. For those of you who aren’t...
2013-01-23
1,582 reads
Day 18 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: How to CHECKDB Like a Boss
Day 18 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series is drawing to a close. It’s 11:22 PM here, and...
2013-01-23
1,193 reads
SQL Server certification path
At the House of BrickSolutions Architect blog, I have a new post up on the path to full SQL Server...
2013-01-23
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Cumulative Update – 9 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Is Now Available !
The 9th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 is now available. Cumulative Update 9 contains all...
2013-01-23
1,389 reads
SQL Server 2012 for Beginners
I have been working for Microsoft for the past two years. One of the most enjoyable parts of my job...
2013-01-22
986 reads
Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices Chapter 18 Review Tuning for Peak Load
I'm on a Book!
Hello Dear Reader, early last year I was asked if I would like to contribute to a...
2013-01-22
911 reads
Guest blog post and whitepaper at VMware on Shadow IT
Yesterday I was featured as a guest on the VMware.com vFabric blog to introduce a whitepaper that I authored on...
2013-01-22
1,011 reads
New Year Aspirations – boB Taylor – MCM
Thanks for agreeing to do this boB. It’s great to be able to interview the Microsoft program manager for the...
2013-01-22
1,895 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...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers