Knowledge of how your system behaves is vital to better control, maintain, and grow the system. While Azure provides all sorts of wonderful assistance within Azure SQL Database, you’re...
2021-04-22 (first published: 2021-04-19)
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The other day I got a note from Ben Weissman the other day that he was running a new event, http://dativerse.io/. Not much information, but I liked this list...
2021-04-22 (first published: 2021-04-19)
177 reads
One of the technical books that sit on my work desk (or dining table, whichever is the case because I work from home full time now) at arm’s length...
2021-04-21 (first published: 2021-04-15)
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Next week on Wednesday is the Calgary Data User Group’s second event for 2021, and the second event as a member of Microsoft’s new Azure Data Community. Since last...
2021-04-21
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-04-21
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Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is a fairly simple construct, but I...
2021-04-21 (first published: 2021-04-14)
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If you work in the world of SQL Server you’ve almost certainly heard of dbatools. For those who haven’t, it’s an open source PowerShell module for automating literally hundreds...
2021-04-20 (first published: 2021-02-15)
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-04-20
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(Thanks to Erik Darling for reviewing this post. Check out his training materials.) One of the bigger clichés in the data professional vocabulary (behind “it depends”) is that you...
2021-04-20 (first published: 2021-02-17)
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I am excited to share an important milestone in my life. My third book, “Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft SQL“, is released. Co-authored with Ahmad Yaseen and Rajendra Gupta,...
2021-04-19 (first published: 2021-03-09)
595 reads
I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance...
A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless)...
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Tomorrow, November 19, 2024, at 1 PM EST, I'm giving a webcast on SQL...
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First time here...hoping I can find some direction and answers so I can devise...
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