Custom Statistics Distributions in SQL Server 2022
You can create custom statistics distributions, sampling, and histograms in SQL Server 2022 with a new trace flag
2024-04-01
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humor
2024-04-01
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CosmosDB APIs Inside SQL Server 2024
New enhancements in SQL Server 2024 will allow MongoDB and Cassandra clients to store their data in a SQL Server database, in native NoSQL format.
2024-04-01
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2023-12-29
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2023-12-25
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Why Haven’t You Disabled SA? Wrong Answers Only.
On social media, I asked folks, “Why haven’t you disabled the SA account in your SQL Servers? Wrong answers only.” The results were pretty funny:
2023-12-01
2023-11-24
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The Top 5 Technologists
There's a common party question about which 5 people would you invite to a dinner party? Often this is amended to include living or dead people, and it's often interesting to hear people tell you who they'd invite and why. Since most of the people reading this work in technology in some way, I was […]
2023-02-24
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Blogs
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Check your regions people
Today I was having a nice discussion with some colleagues about Fabric and pricing/licensing...
Using Git Prune–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated...
Forums
Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
By Stewart "Arturius" Campbell
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Read Only Replica in SQL...
Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI - Part 1
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Backup of encrypted databases failing
I've had some backups of my encrypted databases failing with the error "BACKUP 'DBName'...
Question of the Day
Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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