About those Read-Only Replicas
In a post, I wrote last month I showed how you can take advantage of your replicas in SQL Sever by adding a single attribute to your connection string...
2023-11-13 (first published: 2023-10-26)
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Quick Tip: Taking advantage of Read-Only SQL Server replicas in your C# application
If you happen to be using C# there is a very easy way to set your application up to take advantage of Read-Only replicas.
Using this connection string: (Some portions...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-18)
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How to curb aggressive parallelism in Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server, like most modern database systems, can convert a query into a set of parallel instructions to improve efficiency. This is map-reduce before map-reduce was a popular...
2023-10-02 (first published: 2023-09-06)
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Efficient calculation of an ISBN-13 check digit
I thought I might pass along, what I have found to be, the most efficient way to validate the check digit within Azure SQL Server. I was looking to...
2023-07-17 (first published: 2023-07-10)
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Pulling Azure Analysis Services logs from Azure Log Analytics into PowerBI using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
We have very large Analysis Services(SSAS) cubes with billions of records and hundreds of users so we need to be able to monitor the performance of queries. 95% of...
2023-05-29 (first published: 2023-05-17)
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Moving dates to a weekending date
In publishing, and Im sure many other industries, we get data at both the daily level and the weekly level. To properly tie these two pieces of data you...
2022-11-16 (first published: 2022-11-05)
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Improved data loads from Snowflake to Azure Synapse Analytics
My responsibilities revolve around providing the business with the data they need to make informed business decisions. One of those processes requires us to shift data from a Snowflake...
2022-11-11 (first published: 2022-10-30)
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Presenting at DeveloperWeek Global!
I'm excited to be presenting my talk on Building a complete API in Azure
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-20)
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Composite Models in PowerBI -- The solution to poor search performance in SSAS
With the release of composite models in PowerBI, Ive been able to solve a long-standing issue with SQL Server Analysis Services: text search performance. In this article I am...
2022-10-28 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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New Blog Space
I've decided to move my blog here. You'll see some old content being uploaded in the next few days. Look around, I hope you find some tidbits of information.
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2022-10-17
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You should be running on SQL Server 2022
It’s me again with my apparently semi-annual blog post. This time we’re going to...
Removing a PowerShell Array Element–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw an article on this and realized I had no idea how to...
PostgreSQL Backup Failure
In this blog post I wrote a tip about fixing the PostgreSQL backup failure...
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