Load Extended Events via Powershell
Learn how you can load Extended Events with PowerShell, nice and fast.
How to Configure Amazon RDS SQL Server for Windows Authentication
This article will show how to use Windows authentication for AWS RDS SQL Server by setting up an AWS Managed Active Directory and integrate it with an AWS RDS SQL Server instance.
Whitepaper: Enabling fast and easy database migrations with Flyway
High performing teams must implement a common approach to database migrations so that the database can be included in Continuous Delivery. This ‘kernel’ of Database DevOps leads to better alignment between developers and Ops teams, and increases the throughput of high quality releases. The key for many is Flyway, and this whitepaper explores how this highly configurable migrations tool enables a bespoke migrations-based deployment strategy that is easy to adopt and scale across teams
Join the New Stars of Data
There are plenty of opportunities to grow your career by sharing knowledge. Steve points out a few today.
Using Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
Learn how you can query CosmosDB data from Azure Synapse in this walkthrough.
Developing a backup plan
Without a good backup and recovery strategy in place, a DBA should make sure their resume is always up to date. In this article, Greg Larsen discusses what should be considered when developing a backup plan.
Stairway to Biml Level 8 – Using the Relational Database Metadata to Build Packages
In this next level of the Stairway to Biml, we will examine how you can use the information stored in your RDBMS to build packages.
Your User Group Goals
Today Steve asks what you might want out of your local organization devoted to the data platform.
Deploy Database Objects to Multiple SQL Server Instances Using PowerShell
In this article we look at a PowerShell script that can help you deploy database objects to multiple SQL Server instances.
Effective Data Governance: Being Grown Up About Data
William Brewer explains how to make data governance a continuous organizational activity, based on well-established standards and practices, rather than a knee-jerk response, and which skills and tools will help you achieve compliance, including SQL Data Catalog for discovery and classification of data held in SQL Server.
Blogs
The Mystery of SQL Server 2025’s New Tricks – Scooby Dooing Episode 5
Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail...
A Prompt AI Experiment
By Steve Jones
Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)
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How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at...
Forums
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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
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Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale – Level 2: Page Server Architecture Explained
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Question of the Day
SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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