The Balanced Technical Manager
If you are considering moving into management as a career goal, read today's editorial from Steve, with some advice based on an interesting article from someone with experience at Facebook and Stripe.
Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022
We are excited to share that there are several Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022.
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:
A Lack of Privacy in Smart Cars
With new vehicles becoming more and more computerized and controlled, is data privacy an issue?
Using the Import Extension in Azure Data Studio
Learn how this extension in Azure Data Studio makes it easy to import flat files in a CSV or JSON format.
TABLOCK Hint can Negatively Impact SQL Server Concurrency
In this article, we look at how using the Tablock hint in SQL Server could impact concurrency and block other sessions.
Working with Azure DocumentDB: SQL & NoSQL Together
Updating and deleting documents, creating queries, and managing query results in Microsoft's new NoSQL database-as-a-service.
Data Security and AI
Today Steve discusses an aspect of AI that many people are concerned about: data security. Read more and think about how this might affect your organization.
Time Series Data Mining Example with T-SQL when Adding New Data
Learn about working with time series data using T-SQL code and how to add additional data to the data set for more in-depth data mining.
Blogs
In Memory of Andrew Clarke, AKA Phil Factor
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
Leading Through the Noise: Harnessing Data in the Age of Digital Overload
By Chris Yates
The New Leadership Frontier In today’s digital landscape, leaders are no longer just visionaries....
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
Forums
taking the rcsi dive
Hi, we put together an extract that runs every 15 minutes against what i...
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Question of the Day
Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers