CCI Bulk Load Pitfalls 2 – Parametrization of Dynamic SQL
Intro
In the last blog I showed how important statistics are for CCI bulk load even on small tables. This time...
2018-09-26
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Azure Outage Post-Mortem Part 3
My previous blog posts, Azure Outage Post-Mortem – Part 1 and Azure Outage Post-Mortem Part 2,made some assumptions based upon limited information coming from...
2018-09-26
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Book Review – Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE
Yes, you’re reading that right. A book not about the Microsoft BI stack. At a project, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI)...
2018-09-26
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Best Hidden Feature in SQL Server 2019
With Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week a lot of new features are being advertised all over the internet. Most likely if you are following along you have heard of...
2018-09-26
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Best Hidden Feature in SQL Server 2019
With Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week a lot of new features are being advertised all over the internet. Most likely...
2018-09-26
596 reads
Cloud ETL for the Modern Enterprise Workshop
We are introducing a new workshop focused on Cloud ETL. ETL, or Extract, Transfer and Load, is nothing new and...
2018-09-26
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Azure means hybrid now
On Monday 24 September 2018, Microsoft announced a slew of stuff at their annual Ignite conference that is going to...
2018-09-26
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Azure Cognitive Services – Language APIs
In today’s post focusing on Azure Cognitive Analytics, I’ll look at the Language Analytics APIs that are available. These language...
2018-09-26
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I’m Giving Four Free Sessions in October!
I’ve got FOUR sessions coming up in October. These sessions will each be 30 minutes. Redgate Sessions Wed, Oct 3, 9AM PT / 12PM ET: How to Lead DBAs...
2018-09-26
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Azure Database Migration Service (DMS)
As I first mentioned in my blog Microsoft database migration tools, the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) is a PaaS solution that makes it easy to migrate from on-prem/RDS to Azure...
2018-09-26
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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