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2021-07-15
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Daily Coping 15 Jul 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...
2021-07-15
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Padding a string in SQL Server
I’ve been working on converting a piece of DB2 code into T-SQL and one of the functions I had to ... Continue reading
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
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Azure Platform Series – renaming your YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps
This blog post is about YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps. I had a repo called InfrastructureAsCode for a client. I have been transitioning them to use YAML for their...
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
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Getting Row Numbers with Window Functions–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. In a recent post, I started looking at...
2021-07-14
151 reads
Accessibility after the fact: closed captions for videos
My user group, the Calgary Data User Group, has been recording videos since April of this year, so at the time of this writing we have just two videos...
2021-07-14
21 reads
Daily Coping 14 Jul 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...
2021-07-14
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Add Azure Cache for Redis to Your Azure SQL Performance Tuning Toolbox
One of the biggest impacts on resource consumption for Azure SQL DB are repeated data pulls by the application layer. No matter how fast those queries execute calling the...
2021-07-14
61 reads
Add Azure Cache for Redis to Your Azure SQL Performance Tuning Toolbox
One of the biggest impacts on resource consumption for Azure SQL DB are repeated data pulls by the application layer. No matter how fast those queries execute calling the...
2021-07-14
103 reads
Using GitHub Actions to build packer AMI on AWS
GitHub Actions is a very cool tool for automating CI/CD pipeline workflows or any routine task. Once the code resides in Github, automating tasks from using Github actions is...
2021-08-04 (first published: 2021-07-13)
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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
SQL Server Storage Optimization: Multiple Files in a Filegroup vs Dedicated File
Hello, I would like to get some feedback regarding the best storage optimization strategy...
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...
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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