Have you ever been tasked with creating test data for an application and then ran into performance problems once the application moves to production? Many of us manage databases...
2024-01-22 (first published: 2024-01-08)
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When I was 11 I got my first computer, an 8088 with 4.5 mhz. I didn’t know much about computers at the time but I knew it was cool....
2024-01-17 (first published: 2024-01-04)
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If you’ve ever been a DBA and seen the mess that you get with SQL Agent Jobs without a clean naming standard for your job schedules and job names...
2021-09-06 (first published: 2021-08-13)
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Azure Purview is a compliance and data governance platform in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The platform is currently in public preview and has quite a few features; but, does not...
2021-09-01 (first published: 2021-08-11)
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Is Microsoft’s licensing scheme getting you down? It’s 2020 and there are now plenty of data platforms that are good for running your enterprise data workloads. Amazon’s Aurora PaaS...
2020-12-16 (first published: 2020-12-07)
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I’m excited and happy to announce that I’m part of the AWS Community Builders. Check out more on Twitter with the #AWScommunity tag. To learn more about the program...
2020-07-31
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On a few occasions I’ve referred to GCP (Google Cloud Platform) as the “Windows Phone of cloud providers” and what I meant by that is they have a great...
2020-07-15 (first published: 2020-07-06)
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For the past few months most of the world has been in quarantine and you may think that this is the new normal, especially now that “re-opening” has been...
2020-06-28
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SQL Server 2019 brings a lot of great new features. Many are introduced by the IQP (Intelligent Query Processing) features and greatly improve query performance. Some time ago I...
2020-06-24 (first published: 2020-06-09)
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Earlier this week Microsoft released the latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2019 and as you can expect there are quite a few items addressed including a fix for...
2020-06-24
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By Brian Kelley
Core skills depends on the position, but the point is that ensuring you have...
By Steve Jones
zverism – n. the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in...
By Kevin3NF
The Source Control Dilemma Every DBA has been there. Trying to keep track of...
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Hi I have a task in my SSIS package that moves files from source...
We are migrating our environments to Azure, it will be a mix of SQL...
How do I calculate the amount of space needed for I/O buffers during a backup operation?
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