Managing Azure Blueprints with PowerShell
Learn about the Azure PowerShell cmdlet for Azure Blueprints in Azure Resource Manager framework and how to export, import, publish, and assign Azure Blueprints with PowerShell cmdlets.
2020-09-23
Additional Articles
Data Masker with SQL Data Catalog Integration Automates Data Protection Process
Data Masker for SQL Server now integrates with SQL Data Catalog (seamlessly with our new GUI) to let you fully automate your data privacy and protection process, from data classification through to masking.
2020-09-22
Explaining SQL Server Statistics with Playing Cards
When you run a query, how does SQL Server estimate the number of rows? I’ll explain in this half-hour video demo using playing cards, then showing the same issues in SQL Server Management Studio.
2020-09-22
Understanding SQL Server Recovery Models
The database recovery model controls how a SQL Server database can be backed up and restored. In this article, Greg Larsen explains the three recovery models and what to think about when choosing a recovery model for a database.
2020-09-21
Why you should embed monitoring earlier in your Database DevOps cycle
With insights from a recent Gartner report, Redgate’s Jamie Wallis looks at the benefits of tracking, and acting on, key metrics early in the DevOps process and how they can apply equally to database monitoring.
2020-09-21
Posting SQL Server Notifications to Slack
In this article we look at how to send Slack notifications when certain events occur in a SQL Server database.
2020-09-18
Heaps in SQL Server: Part 3 Nonclustered Indexes
Uwe Ricken continues his series on heaps. This time he demonstrates a common scenario where the query against a heap is faster than a clustered index.
2020-09-17
Power BI Histogram Example using DAX
Companies use a Bell Curve approach to measure performance. As part of this approach they create a histogram. A histogram is a statistical concept and according to Wikipedia it is defined as a graphical distribution of the numerical data. A histogram is made of several bins and bins can be considered a range of values or a benchmark
2020-09-16
When SQL Server Performance Goes Bad: Rogue Indexes
Phil Factor explains how SQL Monitor helps focus performance tuning efforts on the tables and queries where 'rogue indexes' might be a significant problem, and then how to identify both 'missing' indexes that might be beneficial to the overall workload, and those that are unused or duplicated, and so are doing more harm than good.
2020-09-16
SQL Server Wait Stats Monitoring with PowerShell
In this article we add another module to the PowerShell monitoring process to capture wait stats for all monitored SQL Server instances.
2020-09-15
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tip: Compliance Checking for Old Versions
By Steve Jones
A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old...
Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart
A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order...
The Only Valid Test of a Backup is a Restore
Please, let me reiterate: The only valid test of a backup is a restore....
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Azure Managed Instance Backup Schedule with SQL Job
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Question of the Day
Migration Assistant Issues
If I run the Data Migration Assistant to check for an upgrade from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2022, which categories of issues are pointed out as potential items that can affect an upgrade? (choose 3)
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