SQL Server 2016 – Stretch Databases
One of the feature I’ve been interested in that’s coming with SQL Server 2016 is the stretched database. The ability...
2015-06-15
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
SQL Server 2016 features I’m interested in
Microsoft announced this month what features/improvements will be in the next version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2016. You can...
2015-05-26
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SQL Server 2016 features I’m interested in
Microsoft announced this month what features/improvements will be in the next version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2016. You can...
2015-05-26
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 4 – Native Compilation
This post follows on from In-Memory OLTP: Part 3 – Durability & Recovery
In this final post for the #SQLNewBlogger challenge I want...
2015-04-27
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 4 – Native Compilation
This post follows on from In-Memory OLTP: Part 3 – Durability & Recovery
In this final post for the #SQLNewBlogger challenge I want...
2015-04-27
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 3 – Checkpoints
This post follows on from In-Memory OLTP: Part 2 – Indexes
So far in this blog series memory optimised tables have been...
2015-04-20
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 3 – Checkpoints
This post follows on from In-Memory OLTP: Part 2 – Indexes
So far in this blog series memory optimised tables have been...
2015-04-20
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 2 – Indexes
Following on from In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction where we created a database capable of hosting memory optimised tables, I’d...
2015-04-13
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 2 – Indexes
Following on from In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction where we created a database capable of hosting memory optimised tables, I’d...
2015-04-13
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction
In-Memory OLTP is getting a lot of (rightly deserved imho) hype at the moment. But what does it entail exactly?...
2015-04-10 (first published: 2015-04-06)
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In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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