Flawed Data Integration
These days we often have multiple applications that need to exchange data in use by customers. Steve shares a few thoughts on his recent experiences.
Power BI Report Builder Expressions - Date Functions
Learn about expressions and date functions in the Power BI Report Builder.
[Re-post] The 10 Benefits of Monitoring for Leaders
A third-party database monitoring tool is an investment that drives enormous value for the bottom line of a business in ten key ways, from simplifying cloud migration to retaining talent. Here's how.
Recover Recently Closed Tab in SSMS
Learn different ways to recover a T-SQL script when using SQL Server Management Studio if SSMS is accidently shutdown without saving the script.
Building a PC
Steve has a few thoughts on building your own PC to help you with work or your career.
The benefits of database change management
Using a change management system for database code is a new idea for many database administrators. Grant Fritchey explains the many benefits of database change control.
One or Many Databases
When you have multiple clients in your application, do you want one or many databases?
Optimizing my.cnf for MySQL performance
Database systems often need tuning for best performance. Lukas Vileikis explains to how to optimize my.cnf for MySQL performance.
Why Database Monitoring Tools are Important for Senior Leaders
Matt Gordon is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and the Director of Data and Infrastructure at Rev.io. In this short video, he talks us through the 3 key reasons database monitoring tools are essential for him as a Director, and how they help him to lead a team successfully and productively.
Are Cubes Dead?
Is the idea of an Analysis Services cube something that is no longer relevant for modern data analysis? Steve thinks it might be.
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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