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Data Analytics/Business Intelligence Expert Strengths: Passion, great with people, loves to learn and teach Weaknesses: Chocolate, fast cars, death Inquire...
2017-08-07
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TheSqlPro.com - Ayman El-Ghazali
SQL Server 2016: A Comprehensive Introduction – Arabic
It has been over a year since I have blogged, I know… that’s a long time! I have not retired,...
2017-04-26
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PolyBase: I now Pronounce you SQL and Hadoop
Are you interested in Hadoop? With SQL Server 2016 just around the corner, a powerful new feature is being included called...
2016-04-27
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SQL Server 2016: What’s the best new feature?
With SQL 2016 around the corner, and my blog without a post this year, I thought I would write about...
2016-04-28 (first published: 2016-04-19)
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Get valuable Virtual Log File (VLF) information for all your databases log files
I had this problem where I needed to gather Transaction Log information on multiple databases and check for valuable statistics on...
2015-11-09 (first published: 2015-11-02)
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SQL 2016 Row-Level Security Demo: Users with various clearance levels
SQL 2016 is right around the corner and one of the new security enhancements promised is Row-Level security for tables....
2015-10-01
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Another Career Podcast – Working at Microsoft
I have to admit, I had a lot of fun at SQL Saturday in Philly this last June; I mean...
2015-08-07
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Podcast about my career and the SQL Server Community with Chris Bell
During my time at SQL Saturday in Philadelphia (Early June), Chris Bell invited me to be a guest on his...
2015-07-09
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Working at Microsoft – A Year in Reflection
Last year after starting my new job with Microsoft as a Senior Consultant I wrote an article about my interviewing...
2015-06-24
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2015-03-29
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Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
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If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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