#TSQL2sday 136 Invitation: Blog About Your Favorite Data Type (Or Least Favorite)
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blogothon where we get together and write about a different topic. I’m hosting this month’s episode. Your mission: write a blog post about your favorite data type, and schedule it for next Tuesday, March 9. Mad ab …
Monitor SQL Server Error Logs with PowerShell
Introduction The Error Logs of your SQL instances often contain valuable information. Information that may require follow-up attention or an awareness of certain situations. Information such as backups failing, I/O problems, or failed login attempts. T …
Using Azure SQL Data Sync to Replicate Data
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Unlocking the “PASS Pro” Educational series
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Microsoft Azure ADF – Dynamic Pipelines
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud based data integration service that allows you to create data-driven workflows in the cloud for orchestrating and automating data movement and data transformation. Azure Data Factory does not store any data itself. b …
sqldf in R Example for SQL Server
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Partitioned Tables Cause Longer Plan Compilation Times
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Customizing Database Deployments using Flyway Callbacks and Placeholders
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Free Webcast: Planning a SQL Server to Azure Migration in 2021
You manage database servers for your company, and they’re thinking about migrating everything to Microsoft Azure. You’ve searched the web for information and advice, but everything you’re finding is outdated. You just want a list of t …
Ten tips for building a collaborative DevOps culture
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Query Optimizer Suggests Wrong Index and Query Plan — Why?
As I was preparing my presentation for the C# Corner SQL Server Virtual Conference, I came across (accidentally) a query plan that was unexpected. This plan had a suggested index that unfortunately supported that very unusual query plan. This article i …
Comparing and Syncing Data using SQL Data Compare Command Line
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Learning SQL Server
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New SQL ConstantCare® Feature: One Serious Query to Tune
Our monitoring tool, SQL ConstantCare®, is different. Some monitoring tools send you a whole bunch of emails for every little thing that’s happening on every one of your server – and having you end up just creating an Outlook rule to du …
Minimal Downtime Storage Migration of Large Databases
The Problem The performance and stability of the storage layer is extremely critical for large databases, especially when the data size has grown to terabytes. When there is a shared storage among multiple servers, the storage layer can be up …