Azure Integration with Logic Apps
Today I’d like to talk about integration with Azure Logic Apps and how they can help your organization to do...
2018-10-01
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Redgate Releases Sept 2018–Practicing DevOps
At Redgate, we build tools to help you build software in the entire DevOps cycle. In fact, I love this...
2018-10-01
307 reads
I helped write a book! No, not THOSE books…
Every now and again, someone asks if I write romance novels. Why? Well, let’s ask Bing who Kendra Little is…. To clarify, I am not married, I have dogs...
2018-10-01
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Adaptive Joins and Join Hints
At a recent all-day seminar on query performance tuning I was asked a question that I didn’t know the answer...
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-10-01)
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SQL Homework – October 2018 – Time for an upgrade
When you created your home lab last September you probably installed a version of SQL 2016. Well, SQL 2017 was...
2018-10-01
313 reads
Checking Trace Flags with dbachecks, online docs and PSPowerHour
It’s been a few weeks since i have blogged as I have been busy with a lot of other things....
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-09-29)
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Missing Index Recommendations, These Are Not The Indexes You're Looking For
Picture the scene….. DBA Doug is sitting in his cubicle minding his own business when App Dev Allister gives him...
2018-09-29
163 reads
Missing Index Recommendations, These Are Not The Indexes You’re Looking For
Picture the scene….. DBA Doug is sitting in his cubicle minding his own business when App Dev Allister gives him...
2018-09-29
147 reads
Native UTF-8 Support in SQL Server 2019: Savior or False Prophet?
(last updated: 2018-12-26 @ 16:20 EST / 2018-12-26 @ 21:20 UTC )
(NOTE: For recent update, please see “Update for CTP 2.2” section)
For some...
2018-09-28
10,780 reads
Understanding a UK Keyboard for a US developer
One of the very interesting parts of my job is that I run into UK keyboards on a regular basis....
2018-09-28
1,017 reads
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Checking the Error Log II
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