Changing SET options in a Procedure or Trigger leads to Recompilation (PE012)
Phil Factor delves into SQL Prompt's performance rule, PE012, which will advise you if it detects the use of the SET statements within a stored procedure or trigger, which might cause unnecessary recompilations, though the issue extends to other types of batches.
How to Create an Ubuntu PowerShell Development Environment – Part 1
Since SQL Server now runs in Linux, more database professionals will begin to learn this operating system. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates how to set up an Ubuntu virtual machine for learning.
Why Getting Data Right Matters
An InfoWorld article from 2017 suggests that 80 percent of a data scientist’s job is cleaning and transforming data, and I believe this is probably only true for organizations that spend at least an average effort in designing and implementing their data storage. These persons who have trained to analyze data using complex math formulas […]
The Connection to the Primary Replica is not Active
In this article, I’m going to talk an issue that I found when joining replica or database on secondary replica to availability group.
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Power BI Advanced Q&A
What advanced features are available in the Power BI Q&A functionality? Also, how does the new Q&A visual work?
Export/Import Data using BCP - SQL Server on Linux
In this article you will learn how to use BCP for SQL Server on Linux to export and import data using the BCP command line utility.
Cloning all the Databases on a Server
Phil Factor shows uses SQL Clone and PowerShell to automatically create images of all databases on an instance, if they don't already exist, and then create or refresh clones of each one, on all your development servers.
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Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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