Why You Should Benchmark Your Storage
You should benchmark your storage immediately. If you are a database administrator, you should benchmark it yesterday. And today. And...
2014-12-15
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Create a clustered index and a primary key on existing tables
It’s the simple things in life that can trip people up. I find that creating primary keys and clustered indexes...
2014-12-15
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The Value of Writing Good
Most of my peers, and likely yours as well, work in some sort of technical field. Odds are that they’re...
2014-12-15
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Does a clustered index sort the rows within a page
This is just something I was curious about. I ran my tests and got an answer and now I thought...
2014-12-15
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SSAS #39–Building Optimal and Well-Tuned Dimensions
The Analysis Services Performance Guide from bunch of Microsoft Analysis Services experts have been updated since 2005 edition for 2008 R2...
2014-12-14
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Little Java Boy
I didn’t want to repeat the Night Before Upgrade again this year, so I wrote something new. Go ahead, sing...
2014-12-14
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SSIS #117–What is the Location in the MSOLAP Connection String
MSOLAP is a native OLE DB provider for Analysis Services
A common task during ETL is to process the OLAP dimensions and the...
2014-12-13
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Contact
The best way to contact me is via email, please feel free to reach out at info@centinosystems.com and you will be replied to promptly.
Thank you!
2014-12-13
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Azure Columnstore, part 1 – The initial preview offering
With today’s announcement on the availability and support of the Columnstore indexes in the Preview version of Azure SQLDatabase, I...
2014-12-12
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Monitoring blocking and deadlocking with Extended T-SQL Collector
Monitoring blocking and deadlocking hasn’t always been easy. Sometimes, the tools available in SQL Server are not as friendly as...
2014-12-12
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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