Understanding execution plans is a good basic skill for all DBA's and SQL developers. Darren White gives us an overview of what execution plans are in SQL Server and how they are used.
Satnam Singh walks through the steps he took to troubleshoot a recent issue with memory consumption on a staging server.
This time we will work with the sqlcmd to handle our Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Steve Jones says you should treat your database servers like cattle. It makes life easier.
If you need to run SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine, your choice of Azure storage will have a great effect on its performance. If performance is important, you are likely to discover complications and barriers in the storage options when you come to provision the server. If you get it wrong, you could end up with an expensive service. Joshua explains the value of using a lab environment to allow you to make well-informed VM storage decisions when the time comes to provision your production system.
Today during the Visual Studio launch event, we announced that we’ve partnered with Redgate to include Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017. Redgate Data Tools includes three components that extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases and increase your productivity while doing database development.
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Today Steve Jones talks about the checklist you would want if you needed to move a SQL Server instance to new hardware.
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