Are You Still Using Portable Drives?
Steve realizes that he doesn't use physical storage anymore for transferring data.
Artificial Intelligence with Power BI
Get a brief introduction to using the AI features in Power BI.
Setting SQL Deadlock Priority to Control the Transaction that is Rolled Back
Learn how to control which SQL Server transaction will get rolled back when a deadlock occurs by using DEADLOCK_PRIORITY.
SSIS Bad Habits: Decreasing SSIS Package Performance
This tip will explain some mistakes SSIS developers usually make when designing ETL and how they should be avoided to help improve performance.
How to create a Power BI report using REST API data
In this article, we will learn how to use a REST API from Power BI to get data for a report.
Deploy and Configure Azure SQL Managed Instance
This article covers how to deploy, configure and test the managed instance version of Azure SQL Database using the General-Purpose edition.
New Flyway Course on Redgate University
Flyway Desktop is the newest way to automate database deployments. In this brand new course Kathi Kellenberger provides an overview of DevOps, including definitions, tools, and demos of some of the advanced features available in Flyway Desktop.
Basic Checks on a New AWS RDS SQL Server
When you first become responsible for a new RDS instance, what do you do? Kenneth Igiri gives you a few queries to get you started.
Upgrading SQL Server Central
It's time to look at an instance upgrade for SQL Server Central. Or is it? Steve shares some thoughts about the process and decision making.
Introducing the MySQL DELETE statement
In this article, I focus exclusively on the DELETE statement to help round out our discussion on the core DML statements in MySQL. Overall, the DELETE statement is fairly basic, but one that’s no less necessary to have in your arsenal of DML tools.
Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Forums
cons for a dev machine in a different version of sql from our prod server
hi, im not a dba. For a couple of years our dev sql server...
Inquiry – Enforcing ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly via GPO
Hello, I would like to ask whether it is technically possible to redirect a...
Calculating Geometric Mean in Power BI
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Question of the Day
TempDB Facts I
Can I set Accelerated Database Recovery on tempdb?
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