One of the biggest issue that you might experience in Managed Instance is reaching storage limit or finding out that you don't have enough CPU. In this case you would need to get the bigger instance; however, this is not instant operation. In this post, you will see how you can monitor resource usage and send email alerts if there is a risk that you might reach the limits.
The ForEach loop works with only one file type at a time by default. Learn how you can add code to your packages to work with multiple types of files.
Steve prefers database migrations as a way of making changes to a database, though he knows they are hard. He gives a few reasons to choose them.
Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related to source control. But it’s finally providing us with a solution to these challenges. Let’s analyse this piece-by-piece.
I'm writing this on the last day of PGConf.EU, sitting here in Prague. I'm looking forward to sitting in several more sessions today, as well as having a few more conversations with the people at the conference. It's been a great event and I'm so happy I've been able to take part. Following the PASS […]
This article examines the challenges with searches on encrypted data and presents a possible solution that you might use to speed up those queries.
A cloud migration for DoorDash interested Steve, primarily because it didn't work, but they were able to back out and try again.
Azure CosmosDB provides ODBC driver that enables you to query CosmosDB collections like classic databases. In this post you will see how to query CosmosDB collections from Sql Server using Transact-Sql.
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: I changed data from my application, but when I checked the database, I couldn’t see the change! I’ve seen this. Loads. It can be quite perplexing for folks because they expect to see an error message if the insert, update, or delete failed.
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I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
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If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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