
What DBAs Need to Know About Snapshots
Snapshots by Polaroid? That’s not right.You’re a DBA responsible for making sure SQL Server databases are online, backed up, corruption-free, and fast. Your databases have gradually grown in size over time, and you’re starting to hit …
CASE STUDY: The hybrid monitoring needs of a fast-growing global business
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How to get length of Text, NText and Image columns in SQL Server
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SQL Server Graph Tables – Cross Database Surprises
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Webinar | Kick start your DevOps Initiative
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Flyway Gotchas
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An Introduction to Flowlets in Azure Data Factory
Introduction Flowlets is a new feature of Mapping data flows introduced in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. Flowlets can be used to extract portions of an existing data flow and save them as separate « Flowlet » objects inside your data fa …
Tips and tricks with DAX table functions in paginated reports
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[Video] Office Hours: Last San Diego Balcony Edition
It’s the last San Diego balcony edition of Office Hours! You posted your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvoted the ones you’d like to see. Here’s what we covered this week: 00:00 Introductions 00:50 Steve E: Hi Bren …

What Do the LCK_M_SCH_M and LCK_M_IS Wait Types Indicate?
You’re investigating your SQL Server’s top wait stats, and you’re noticing a lot of LCK% waits. Normally, that indicates blocking and deadlocks, but you’re just not getting complaints from your end users, and you’re wonder …
How to create a table using SQL Server Management Studio
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ICYMI: Dealing with Database Data and Metadata in Flyway Developments
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The Curious Case of… eager writing and minimally-logged operations
(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working …

Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for April 2022
Wow, talk about stable! The last 3 months have only introduced a series of small bug fixes. I held this release back as long as I could, waiting to see if anything major might get added or if we might get a SQL Server 2022 CTP, but no dice. If there wa …

Compressed Backup and Performance – SQL in Sixty Seconds #196
During Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was recently asked if I have a handy script that can help us take compressed backup and uncompressed backup. I have blogged about this here: SQL SERVER – Sample Script for Compressed and Uncompr …