Speaker at 24 Hours of PASS – 20 Years of PASS
I’m very happy to announce that for the very first time I will be participating as speaker in the 24 hours of PASS event. This specific instance of 24...
2019-04-03
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SQL Homework – April 2019 – Practice dealing with corruption
Over the last almost 2 years (wow how time flys when you are having fun) we’ve practiced all kinds of ... Continue reading
2019-04-17 (first published: 2019-04-03)
360 reads
What’s a Key Lookup?
One of the easiest things to fix when performance tuning queries are Key Lookups or RID Lookups. The key lookup operator occurs when the query optimizer performs an index...
2019-04-17 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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SQL in the City Streamed is Today
You can still register, but join me later today for SQL in the City Streamed, along with Grant, Kathi, and Kendra. We’re all in the Redgate Software office today...
2019-04-03
33 reads
File and file group method testing for VLDB very large database
File and file group VLDB very large database....
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2019-04-03
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Validation activity in Azure Data Factory - Traffic light of your operational workflow
(2019-Apr-02) Last week Microsoft introduced a new Validation activity task to the Azure Data Factory (ADF) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-validation-activity Initially, I was confused by its name, thinking that it would help me...
2019-04-16 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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Isolation Levels in SQL Server
Do your eyes start to cross whenever you think about isolation levels? Mine did, too. Here's how I keep it all straight.
2019-04-03
43 reads
Activate Conference 2019: Three Days of Tech Learning
Thursday April 4 I'll be giving a workshops at the super-slick-branded Activate Conference 2019 in Baton Rouge at the Louisiana Technology Park, a conference filled with people and topics...
2019-04-02
15 reads
Group By Conference is Back April 11th!
I have joined forces with Blyther Morrow & Daniel Hutmacher to keep the GroupBy Virtual Conference going. We’re aiming to host the conference at least twice this year, and...
2019-04-02
15 reads
Group By Conference is Back April 11th!
I have joined forces with Blyther Morrow & Daniel Hutmacher to keep the GroupBy Virtual Conference going. We’re aiming to host the conference at least twice this year, and...
2019-04-02
11 reads
Blogs
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers
By ReviewMyDB
Many of us use AI the same way every single day. Open a tab....
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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