Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases
Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases is pretty simple and straight forward,as long as you know what you need in...
2017-11-08
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What Are These Backup Settings All About?
I ran across a client the other day that had these Backup and Recovery options set like the picture below...
2017-11-08
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Why do you want to use SQL Service Broker
Why use SQL Service Broker It enables you to execute SQL Statements faster and do the real work later. SQL Server...
2017-11-08
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Columnstore Indexes – part 115 (“Bulk Load API and Pressure”)
Continuation from the previous 114 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is dedicated to the...
2017-11-08
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Contained Databases setup
Last weekI wrote about what is a contained database, the benefits and challenges, today as promised I'll show you how...
2017-11-08
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Tuning Throughput from Azure Event Hub to Azure Stream Analytics
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Recently I had a requirement to load streaming JSON data to provide a data feed for near real-time reporting. The solution streamed...
2017-11-07
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Tuning Throughput from Azure Event Hub to Azure Stream Analytics
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Recently I had a requirement to load streaming JSON data to provide a...
2017-11-07
757 reads
Improving instead-of-insert cardinality estimates for inserted and deleted pseudotables in SQL 2014+
Tricky triggers
In my last entry I noted that the performance of "instead-of" triggers can be tricky.
One of the reasons for...
2017-11-07
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dbatools with SQL on Docker and running SQL queries
I had a question from my good friend Andrew Pruski dbafromthecold on twitter or SQL Container Man as I call...
2017-11-07
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SQL Server Management Studio Reports
Today’s tip is a very basic functionality that comes with any SSMS (SQL Server Management studio), we are talking about...
2017-11-07
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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