Automatic Plan Correction
SQL Server 2017 lets you solve parameter sniffing problems - Automatically!
Bad Days
This Friday Steve Jones wants you to look back and cringe a bit. Share with the rest of the community what a bad day was for you and see if it was really as bad as you think.
Liberating the DBA from SQL Authentication with AD Groups
It's 15 years after the beginning of the century. Time to eliminate the security exposure of SQL logins, and implement integrated security. Active Directory Groups make this easy for the DBA.
Install and Configure SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux - Part 3
In this tip, Edwin Sarmiento looks at how to create the Always On Availability Group with a listener name when using SQL Server on Linux.
Adaptive Query Processing – Batch Mode Memory Grant Feedback
Explore Batch Mode Memory Grant Feedback that was introduced in SQL Server 2017
Historical Stock Prices and Volumes from Python to a CSV File
Python is a versatile language that is gaining more popularity as it is used for data analysis and data science. In this article, Rick Dobson demonstrates how to download stock market data and store it into CSV files for later import into a database system.
Azure DWH part 25: Auditing and threat detection
In this new article, we will show how to audit the Data Warehouse Activities.
Lowering the Noise
We are busy as administrators, and it can be very useful to ensure our systems avoid adding to our workload.
Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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