Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft’s Hiding It.
Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents. Oh, you didn’t hear about it? Let’s talk about why. First, Fabric’s status page is fabricated bullshit. The link https://aka.ms/fabricsupport takes you to a localized sta …
Helpful Management Studio Settings and Features
Working with SSMS can sometimes be quite frustrating, but there are many options provided to make your day easier. The default configuration works fine for most people and many do not explore the various configuration or functionality settings that Mic …
Securing the DevOps Pipeline Part 2: Hardening Kubernetes and Cloud Security
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What are the Key DevOps Performance Metrics You Should Track?
Successful DevOps teams rely on data-driven decision-making to continuously improve software delivery and operational performance. Understanding the right DevOps performance metrics is crucial for identifying bottlenecks, improving efficiency, and main …
How to Safely Remove a SQL Server Data File Without Downtime
Introduction Removing SQL Server Data File Without Downtime is one of important activities in enterprise production scenarios. Managing storage efficiently in SQL Server is crucial, especially when dealing with multiple data files (.ndf) on different …
SQL ASCII Function Use and Examples
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[Video] Office Hours at the Hoover Dam
Dam! I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento without making any dam or beaver puns. Rather proud of myself for that one. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:20 The Princess and the Frag: On SQL Server 2019 or later, are …
MySQL Shell Basic Configuration Management (Part 4 – Optimizing MySQL Performance)
Welcome back to our journey of understanding MySQL performance tuning using MySQL Shell. So far, we’ve covered essential topics like configuring MySQL, optimizing memory and CPU usage, and enhancing disk I/O performance. These are important building bl …
Predicting When SQL Server Will Hit the CPU Wall
Most of the time, we use wait stats to identify SQL Server’s bottleneck and focus on what to tune. However, let’s say you’ve got a really well-tuned SQL Server where: Queries finish in milliseconds (think 5-20 milliseconds, super quick) Everything your …
Introduction to PostgreSQL for the Data Professional
Learning something new has elements of bliss and terror. We all know the bliss of learning something new. The first time you figure out how to do something is a magical feeling that one never tends to lose. Stuck in the back of your mind is the first t …
SQL ConstantCare Badges
SQL ConstantCare™, our monitoring app that gives you a simple daily email with actionable tasks to make your servers faster and more reliable, is about to start sending out monthly awards! On the first weekday of each month, we’ll email the winners wit …
Managed Instance Gotchas – Configuration Items
In my last post I described issues that might stop your migration to a SQL Server Managed Instance (SQL MI). This covers configuration items that differ or are not supported in SQL MI. These likely won’t stop your migration, but they could slow you dow …
Recovering data in SQL Server without full backup
In more than 10 years of experience, I have dealt with cases where someone has performed incorrect operations on a table, such as updating or deleting wrong rows, in a SQL Server database that does not have full backups available. There are multiple re …
Free Webcast Tomorrow: Mastering Query Tuning
This is it: the very peak of my free SQL Server Spring Training webcast series. I’ve been teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free this spring, and now it’s time for the Mastering classes. Tomorrow I’m covering Mastering Query Tuning. …
Evaluating the Randomness of SQL Server Random Number Functions
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