Book Review: Marshmallow Test

Different people approach their career in different ways. My working assumption, all the time, is that I don’t know enough...

Video: Introduction to SQL Server Change Tracking

SQL Server change tracking is a lightweight and synchronous mechanism for detecting inserts, updates, and deletes in tracked tables. For...

Attaching Database Using SMO & Powershell

Steve Jones wrote a great article on using this automation here titled The Demo Setup-Attaching Databases with Powershell. I threw...

Friday Reading 2016-11-18

Another week almost over so in-between daydreaming about relaxing this weekend I’ll be reading…
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-server-2016-service-pack-1-sp1-released/

SQL Server 2016 SP1 has been released....

Query tuning 101: How to measure Query Plan I/O cost

If you’re a DBA or a developer chances are you’ve looked at a query plan or two. While looking at...

Microsoft Connect(); announcements

Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 16-18, where plenty of announcements are made.  Here is a summary of the...

#SQLNewBlogger – T-SQL ESCAPE for Wildcards

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Query Store changes in SQL Server vNext CPT1

Not only did we receive a brand new Service Pack for SQL Server 2016 this week, since yesterday we are...

SQL Server 2016 SP1 Release - Thoughts and Comments!!!

SQL Server 2016 SP1 has released last night and most of the features that were previously part of enterprise edition...

SQL Server on Ubuntu

They finally did it! Finally SQL Server for Linux was announced. I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while, so...