Proactive Performance Tuning
Being proactive in trying to improve your system is good, but sometimes your team might cause you problems with their efforts.
2019-12-04
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Editorials
HSA for Training
Is there a good way to ensure employees get trained? Steve has a few thoughts today on an idea that could help.
2019-12-03
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2019-12-02
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How SQL Server Can Just Go Faster
It’s rare to get a call from a customer telling you that the application is fast today and thanks for taking such good care of the database. Instead, you are more likely to hear complaints when things go wrong like slow running queries and timeouts. There is a lot to consider when trying to figure […]
2019-11-30
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2019-11-29
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2019-11-28
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How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?
Today we have a guest editorial from Ben Kubicek as Steve is away from the office. It is hard to be humble, but it is needs to learn something new.
2019-11-27 (first published: 2016-11-07)
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2019-11-26
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Azure Sphere
The Azure Sphere project is a great piece of research at Microsoft that might help us data professionals with security.
2019-11-25
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2019-11-23
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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
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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How We Reduced SQL Server Infrastructure Costs by 33% on AWS: Lessons From a Database Operations Manager
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BIT_COUNT() V
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