AWS RDS and SQL Server Deadlocks
What’s the story with AWS RDS and SQL Server deadlocks? I’m approaching AWS RDS like I was taking on a new role at a new organization. Do we have...
2020-06-08
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Grant Fritchey
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Fun Fact: AWS RDS and system_health
Did you know that the system_health Extended Event session was running in your RDS instances? Well, it is. HOWEVER. This query, which works perfectly fine on my on premises...
2020-06-02
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Can We Get Row Counts After Execution?
The general idea for this question came from dba.stackexchange.com: could we, and if we can, how, get row counts after execution. I was intrigued with the idea, so I...
2020-06-01 (first published: 2020-05-18)
592 reads
Let’s Talk About The Cloud
I’m launching a new initiative called the Community Circle Cloud Conversation Club (c5 for short). It’s going to a panel discussion lead by experts on cloud technologies. I’ll be...
2020-05-29
14 reads
Find Indexes Used In Query Store
One of the most frequent questions you’ll hear online is how to determine if a particular index is in use. There is no perfect answer to this question. You...
2020-05-25 (first published: 2020-05-11)
414 reads
How Does The CHOOSE Command Affect Performance?
Questions absolutely drive my blog content and I really liked this one: how does the T-SQL CHOOSE command affect performance. On the face of it, I honestly don’t think...
2020-05-11 (first published: 2020-04-27)
633 reads
Database Fundamentals #24: More Filtering Data
In this Database Fundamentals post we continue discussing the functionality of the WHERE clause. We started with the basics of the logic using things like AND, OR and LIKE...
2020-05-04
105 reads
Redgate Community Circle
I am very excited to announce that I will be taking my paid precon content “Tools for SQL Server Query Performance Tuning” and presenting it for free. This is...
2020-04-23 (first published: 2020-04-16)
166 reads
The Very Best of Extended Events
Over the next couple of months, I’ll be putting on a number of different sessions teaching about the tools supplied by Microsoft, for free, that can help you when...
2020-04-20
235 reads
Develop Resiliency
We are all going through some tough times. It’s tougher for some more than others. Now is the time when you have to work on being resilient, and it...
2020-04-13
6 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Purview GA menu’s
By James Serra
The new data governance features in Microsoft Purview are now being made generally available...
Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant
Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added...
Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
By Steve Jones
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell...
Forums
GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
Comments posted to this topic are about the item GIT Configuration and Automated Release...
Case or LOOKUP Table on Common but simplistic values
NOTE: I get that this may be too broad a question to answer and...
Question of the Day
Concat Addition
What is the result of this code?
SELECT CONCAT(1, 2, 3) + 4See possible answers