A Cloud Database for Statistics
A company decides to move to the cloud and outsource database administration.
2021-04-27
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Cloud Computing
PolyBase scale-out group in Azure for free
create a sql server polybase scale out group in azure for free
2021-06-23 (first published: 2021-04-12)
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Maintenance Windows
Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? Some people take that approach to maintenance windows, but that isn't permissible in the cloud.
2021-04-05
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Google Cloud Certification for Microsoft Database Engineer
Introduction I recently passed the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification exam, Professional Data Engineer Certification. It took me about five month to prepare for this, and I would like to share my thoughts of why I decided to take it on and how I prepared for it. At the moment, Google cloud (GCP) is […]
2021-03-15
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2021-03-08
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2020-11-20
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2020-11-03
127 reads
The Next Evolution of Big Blue
IBM is breaking up and Steve thinks back about the evolution of the company and where they might go from here.
2020-10-27
113 reads
Beating the Cloud Vendors
Can you run a system better than cloud vendors? You should know and be able to prove it.
2020-07-13
140 reads
Why Billing Will Be Part of Our Job
I am old enough to remember when many large corporations implemented chargebacks. Essentially, each internal department was charged for their usage of IT systems, similar to how we are charged in the cloud. It was a mess, and individual departments had to answer for excessive charges. I don't know that any department ever lost service, […]
2020-06-18
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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