Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for July 2024
The next release would normally be August, but I’m doing a release a little early in order to fix 2 issues with the Consultant Toolkit. The May release broke the ability to automatically upload results to Amazon S3, and didn’t include all o …
Extending Get-Process to show the Process Chain using PowerShell Proxy Functions
A proxy function or wrapper function allows you to deploy a custom version of a function or cmdlet while the internal functionality remains implemented. That means you can get a core cmdlet or function, add parameters (or remove), and write the code fo …
Getting Your DBA Teams Scripts into Git
One of the things that many teams of DBAs have is a set of scripts they use in their various environments. These are usually built over time for specific purposes and often help ensure that the team can quickly diagnose and solve issues. These might al …
Saving Data Historically with Temporal Tables: Part 1: Queries
In this article we discuss how to store data temporally in PostgreSQL. Temporal database store data in a way that allows you to see not only what the value of any column is currently, but at any point in time that your system is created to handle. In t …
Build Chatbot with Large Language Model (LLM) and Azure SQL Database
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Set up a Windows Server Fail-over Clusters (As a Precursor to High Availability in Standard Edition)
In this walkthrough, we will be setting up WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster) in Windows Server. An WSFC is a group of Windows servers that work together to ensure high availability of applications and services. Any WSFC (albeit for FCI or AG) comp …
[Video] Office Hours: I Don’t Have All the Answers
When I went through the top-voted questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, I didn’t have all the answers today: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:48 MyTeaGotCold: I increased my RAM from 16 GB to 32 GB and my buffer pool has grown …
Join Me in Seattle for Watch Brent Tune a Query in SQL Server 2022
The PASS Data Community Summit session lineup for Nov 4-8 in Seattle was just announced, and I’ve been selected for a general session! Watch Brent Tune a Query in SQL Server 2022: Ever wonder how somebody else does it? In this all-demo session, w …
Control OneLake with Storage Explorer – Data Engineering with Fabric
OneLake Storage What is a Lakehouse in Azure Fabric? Borrowing a quote from MS Learn – « Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse is a data architecture platform for storing, managing, and analyzing structured and unstructured data in a single location ». I think of i …
The SQL Language is Just a Hurdle You Gotta Overcome.
I’m not talking just about Microsoft SQL Server specifically here, nor T-SQL. Let’s zoom out a little and think bigger picture for a second: is the SQL language itself a problem? Sometimes when I talk to client developers, they gripe about …
Deleting Documents from a MongoDB Collection
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the items in the series, click here. So far in this series, we’ve looked at different ways that you can add, retrieve, and update documents in a MongoDB collect …
How to Rename a Column in SQL Server
Recently, I was working on a project to analyze the schema of a third-party vendor. In our organization, we had an internal support ticket management tool. The tool used an SQL database, and after considering the cost of the tool, we decided not to ren …
XML Performance Tuning and Added Options
SQL Server provides a variety of ways to tune XML so that it provides consistent performance, consumes less space, all while ensuring efficient access to critical data. At its core, the metadata-styled XML format runs counter to the data that SQL Serve …
How I Used PostgreSQL RLS To Avoid Code Changes During a Migration
Overview Our application is a microservice that stores metadata for actual data and is backed by Amazon Postgres RDS. It is deployed in a multi-tenant/multi-region/multi-cell environment. The Gateway handles the multi-region aspect of the system. That …
[Video] Office Hours: Database Answers from a Hotel Room
I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento before heading out to PGConf.dev in Vancouver. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:43 Poul J: Hi Brent. Can you give some examples of how a CHECK() constraint is used …