2019-11-11
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Editorials
A Big Week for the Data Platform
Steve highlights a few items from a busy Microsoft and SQL Server news week.
2019-11-09
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The Network Bottleneck
Computer networks are critical for our work, but if they get clogged with new types of data, we might have a problem.
2019-11-08
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2019-11-07
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Predictions for PASS
Steve is missing the PASS opening keynote, but he has a few predictions for the day.
2019-11-06
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Logging Tables
Today Steve Jones looks at the need to log data from an application or process. Are there good and bad ways to design the structures to log information?
2019-11-05 (first published: 2015-09-25)
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2019-11-04 (first published: 2015-11-13)
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A Faster tempdb
I like to call tempdb the “workhorse” of SQL Server. I’ve heard some other people call it other terms that were not so flattering, but since I like to keep things positive, I’ll stick with workhorse. SQL Server uses tempdb for many things. The obvious uses are temp tables and table variables, but tempdb is […]
2019-11-02
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A Mindset Shift
Microsoft has grown and changed their culture in the last few years, which greatly impresses Steve.
2019-11-01
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2019-10-31
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Blogs
Azure Synapse Analytics new features
By James-Serra
Almost lost in all the announcements from Ignite was a bunch of amazing new...
Docker, Git and DBATools
For those who don’t know, last week was the PASS Summit. It’s an amazing...
SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Coffee
By Andy Warren
I like to say that the goal for any event is to meet the...
Forums
Dropping SP's safely
Hi, Is the below script good to delete 3 sp's... Please let me know...
SQL 2017 Listener with Read-Scale (Clusterless environment) AG not working
Hello, I have a Read-Scale AG set up. I have it failing over back...
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