Developing JavaScript for web pages can be perplexing. You will get errors that seem to make no sense, You will be given nuggets of advice about how and when you can use JavaScript to manipulate the DOM or make Ajax requests. It is far better to understand the reason for these rules; the single-threaded nature of JavaScript, and how it loads the page and manages the event loop. How can you achieve parallel processing and what is the best way? Igor makes it all clear and obvious.

EzAdo Part 3

by Alan Hyneman

SQLServerCentral.com

EzAdo is a very simple api built to exploit some new features of SQL 2016. It combines software, convention, and creativity to get more done in less time.

Set Statistics… Profile?

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Brent Ozar Blog

SET STATISTICS IO

Erik Darling looks at SET STATISTICS TIME ON and SET STATISTICS IO ON as potential tools for troubleshooting a query.

EzAdo - Part 2

by Alan Hyneman

SQLServerCentral.com

EzAdo is a very simple api built to exploit some new features of SQL 2016. It combines software, convention, and creativity to get more done in less time.

Generating Our Own Bad Data

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

We depend on data quality to run our businesses efficiently. However, it's a problem when we mess that data up on purpose.

List and Execute SQL Server Stored Procedures with PowerShell

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MSSQLTips.com

Stored Procedures

Stored procedures allow the DBA to automate a certain task by bundling up a query and executing as a single set of logic. This is considerable progress in including more automation, but why not automate the automation? Adam Bertram explains how.

Deploy Security Changes with Copy-SqlLogin

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

PowerShell

Moving security changes between server instances can be a cumbersome process, but it doesn't need to be with the PowerShell cmdlet, Copy-SqlLogin.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Explaining the Architecture Through System Views

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SimpleTalk

Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, etc.)

The architecture of Azure SQL Data Warehouse isn't easy to explain briefly, but if you have some useful queries that access the management and catalog views, and diagrams that show how they relate together, you can very quickly get a feel for what is going on under the hood. By using and extending these queries that use these views, you can check on a variety waits, blocking, status, table distribution and data movement in ASDW.