SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 6 (Index Myths)
And now for something not so different with week 6 of the Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server book giveaway. So far, I’ve...
2016-07-14
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Getting Table Change Scripts–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-07-14
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Altering a column in a large table: A case study
Fair warning, this is a discussion piece. I had a task, I went through several possibilities and I’m going to...
2016-07-14
1,056 reads
Get Your Email Out of my ETL
Question from someone in one my recent classes: “What tool do you use to send email from ETL processes?” My...
2016-07-14
681 reads
Live From @LearningTree London Backup and Restore - Day 3
This week I’m teaching Learning Tree’s course 2108 SQL Server Database Administration in the LEC in London. Following on from last weeks...
2016-07-14
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SQL Server Desired Enhancements
SQL Server 2016 has come with a ton of cool features, bells, whistles and well cool stuff (yes redundant). That aside, what are some of the really cool features...
2016-07-13
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SQL Server Desired Enhancements
Happy Belated Birthday
The monthly Data Professionals blog party has come and gone. It happens the second Tuesday of every month...
2016-07-13
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Source Control for the Reluctant DBA
This is the 2nd post in the series named SQL Server and Continuous Integration. The previous post explained the problems I...
2016-07-13
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Getting Started with Database DevOps, DLM, and New Tools
Next Tuesday is the next installment of our DLM series from Redgate. I’m off the hook, with Grant and Arneh...
2016-07-13
581 reads
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now GA
The Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW), that I blogged about here, is now generally available. Here is the official...
2016-07-13
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Blogs
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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