Azure Cosmos DB – HTAP using Synapse Analytics
I haven’t done much blogging in the last 6 months. My last article was posted in January, on Data Governance in the Covid era. I changed jobs in March,...
2021-10-17
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Power BI Meets Programmability – TOM, XMLA, and C#
For anyone who read the title of this and immediately thought, “Oh no, I can’t do C#! Since when do I need to be in app dev to do...
2021-10-15
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Power BI Meets Programmability – TOM, XMLA, and C#
For anyone who read the title of this and immediately thought, “Oh no, I can’t do C#! Since when do I need to be in app dev to do...
2021-10-27 (first published: 2021-10-15)
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Do Full Backups Break Log Shipping?
TLDR: Nope. Keep on doing your full backups. Make sure that any databases you Log Ship are NOT also doing log backups in your SQL Maintenance Plans, Ola Jobs,...
2021-10-22 (first published: 2021-10-15)
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Daily Coping 15 Oct 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-10-15
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Daily Coping 14 Oct 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-10-14
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#PowershellBasics: Adding data to a string using subexpressions.
I’m working on a project right now where I want to add the date/time to the end of a filename. ... Continue reading
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-14)
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Power BI, Maps, and Publish to Web
October 2021 is mapping month over at Workout Wednesday for Power BI. As part of our challenges, we build a sample report and use the Publish to Web functionality...
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-14)
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SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more)
Yesterday, I had about 30 existing queries (and some multi-query processes) that I needed to turn into individual stored procedures. […]
The post SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and...
2021-10-13
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SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more)
Yesterday, I had about 30 existing queries (and some multi-query processes) that I needed to turn into individual stored procedures. […]
The post SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and...
2021-12-17 (first published: 2021-10-13)
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Blogs
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....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
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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