We have numerous Azure Analysis Services servers running in the cloud and needed a way to have near-real time monitoring of the queries being run. This KQL query will...
2024-02-21 (first published: 2024-02-06)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Three years ago, when the first public preview of SQL Server 2022 (CTP 2.0)...
By Steve Jones
Redgate Monitor works with more than SQL Server. Some big changes were announced recently,...
In this post, I’ll walk you through a T-SQL script that creates application-consistent snapshots...
Every expert knows you can't make perfect software that never crashes or has bugs....
I wanted to share with you tools from my personal toolbox. If your code...
I have a tabular cube, with myself included in one of the roles. I...
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