The Next Chapter ~ A SQL Journey
The past five years have been nothing short of an amazing ride on this thing we call “The SQL Journey”....
2016-04-14
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
The next few months will be crazy for me. I will be travelling a lot around Europe, speaking about SQL Server topics.
Here is where...
2016-04-14
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Cool Tools: Powershell ISE-Steroids
Disclaimer: I have been provided with a free license because I am reviewing. This doesn't impact my assessment of the...
2016-04-14
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU5 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU5),...
2016-04-14
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Modulo!
I love this somewhat obscure mathematical operator. All it does is return the remainder of a division statement but even...
2016-04-14
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How Long Did That Job Run?
When you use the msdb tables to try to gather information on your SQL Server Agent jobs, inevitably you will...
2016-04-21 (first published: 2016-04-14)
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MongoDB – List All the databases
The function getDBs() function returns all the database list
db.getMongo().getDBs()
The runCommand is a special type of query called a database command and...
2016-04-13
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SSRS 2016 then SQL Jeopardy! tonight at BRSSUG!
See you tonight for our special SQL Jeopardy! competition where I will be your Trebek and three lucky user group...
2016-04-13
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SQL 2016 – Dynamic Data Masking
One of the new features that’s coming with SQL Server 2016 is Dynamic Data Masking. DDM is designed to allow...
2016-04-22 (first published: 2016-04-13)
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SQL Server 2016 – It just runs faster SQL Server Engineer Blog Post Overview
In March the CSS SQL Server Engineers started to blog about various new enhancements made to the SQL Server Engine...
2016-04-22 (first published: 2016-04-13)
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Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Forums
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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