What I Learned Today - Configuring tempdb in RDS
Today I learned that you can configure tempdb in RDS!
One of the things we DBA’s do is configure tempdb to...
2017-08-28
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Columnstore Indexes – part 110 (“The best column for sorting Columnstore Index on”)
Continuation from the previous 109 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In this blog post I wanted to...
2017-08-27
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Azure support MySQL & PostgreSQL
After SQL Server support on Linux Microsoft is not have another great enhancement where now Azure supports MySQL and PostgreSQL...
2017-08-27
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SQL Server 2005 – Failed Maintenance Job
I Know SQL Server 2005 is no longer in support by Microsoft, but Want to provide a solution for those...
2017-08-27
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SQL Server Replication snapshot initialization taking long time to be applied
Hello all,In today's post I want to share a tip that helped me troubleshoot an issue I was facing and couldn't find much documentation about it. To my friends...
2017-08-25
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Responsible Log Growth with dbatools
I love dbatools, and I’ve been trying to explore the various cmdlets over time, both to practice my PoSh and...
2017-09-08 (first published: 2017-08-25)
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SQL Server Replication snapshot initialization taking long time to be applied
Hello all,
In today's post I want to share a tip that helped me troubleshoot an issue I was facing and...
2017-08-25
4,280 reads
Friday Reading 2017-08-25
Great week this week as I’ve been selected to speak at 4 of the SQL Relay events in October! Really...
2017-08-25
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Microsoft Azure – How to check details about Azure VM sizes using PowerShell
In this blog we will discuss about how to check the details about Azure VM tiers and sizes. Microsoft Azure...
2017-08-25
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I will be speaking at PowerShell Conference Asia 2017
Which better way could I have to launch my blog if not with great news ?!
I am so happy and excited to announce that I will be speaking at PowerShell...
2017-08-25
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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...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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