MAXDOP Calculator
Every time I conduct a SQL Server health check, it’s pretty common for me to find wrong configurations at instance...
2018-08-28
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What is Automatic Tuning in Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has long given us DBA tools and suggestions to help tune databases, to fix queries with indexes, and many...
2018-08-28
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How Do Azure Accounts and Subscriptions Work Together?
Azure accounts vs. Azure subscriptions – often a topic that brings some confusion to Azure newbies. Are they the same? What’s...
2018-08-28
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Upcoming Performance Tuning Webcast
On September 13, 2018, at 3 PM Eastern (USA), I’ll be giving a webcast for MSSQLTips.com on finding and correcting...
2018-08-28
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Redgate Lives DevOps
At Redgate, we release a lot of changes to our products. In fact, this is the “About Redgate” slide I’ve...
2018-08-28
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Generating a Constrained Random Date–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the “first value in an...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week's video on YouTube
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the "first value in an ordered set of values."
The problem is that if that...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week's video on YouTube
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the "first value in an ordered set of values."
The problem is that if that...
2018-08-28
18 reads
Undercover Catalogue 0.1 Released
Easily Keep Track of All Your SQL Servers
We know what it’s like when you’ve got 101 SQL Servers to manage,...
2018-08-28
289 reads
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Car Update September 2026
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Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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