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Policy Based Management Templates – TSQL2sDay #70
T-SQL Tuesday (aka #TSQL2sday) is a monthly SQL Server blogger event started back in late 2009 by Adam Machanic (blog | twitter). The first topic was about Date/Time Tricks. Read the original TSQL2sday...
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Educator Grants for Microsoft Azure
Are you an educator teaching at an accredited university or college? Do you want Azure cloud subscription grants for you and your students? All you need to do is register with some basic information...
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High Availability and Disaster Recovery Training in Dallas
I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #447 in my home town of Dallas on October 2nd, 2015 titled “Creating a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Plan” . If you are in the area or thinking of...
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Learning Extended Events in 60 Days
This post will serve as the landing page for a series I am calling 60 Days of Extended Events. The purpose of these posts will be to help somebody progress through the Extended Events Concepts and...
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Extended Events Categories
I recently delved into a brief explanation of Packages as they correlate to Extended Events. In that article, I left a couple of things un-said about packages – leaving them for this article.Packages...
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PASS Summit 2015: Recommendations and Invitations (#sqlpass #Summit15)
The last week of October, we’ll be at the PASS Summit in Seattle, WA. As some of you already know – and as I said last year – “this is the highlight of most SQL Server speakers’ years…a sort of...
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The Poor Man’s SQL Backup Encryption - WaterOx Consulting
Well, that was interesting While playing around with demos to use in...The post The Poor Man’s SQL Backup Encryption appeared first on WaterOx Consulting.
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SQL PASS Summit 2015 Karaoke Party
It’s that time of year again, it’s almost time for the PASS Summit. Like the last few years I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be hosting my annual SQL Karaoke party during the PASS Summit again. SIOS...
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Slides for my pass virtualisation virtual chapter talk on how sql fits into a...
The slides are up:https://github.com/GoEddie/SQL-Server-ContainersAny questions shout!Tags: Sql Serverslides
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Finding the worst running query in a stored procedure
The other day I was asked to tune a stored procedure. Not exactly an uncommon task, but I worked something out in the process. I typically want to start by determining what the slowest part of the SP...
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Building up the PowerShell community
Last week I involved in a conversation with some SQL professionals who are also skilled with PowerShell. The SQL Server community is used to having a tool to connect them directly to gurus who are...
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Why is my tSQLt test not running?
I wrote a test earlier and forgot one of the two cardinal rules about tSQLt so I was running my test suite and the test did not run, I re-deployed and it still didn't run so I thought I would create...
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The #TSQL2sday #70 roundup
Time for the T-SQL Tuesday #70 roundup! I asked people for their best enterprise management strategies, and they responded beautifully. Here we go. Rob Farley : Superhero powers for managing the...
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Extended Events – Event Anatomy
So far in these brief discussions about Extended Events, I have covered several core concepts including a basic introduction into what an Event is within Extended Events. For a recap on those articles,...
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What SQL Server components are installed on this machine?
Figuring out what components of SQL Server are installed on a particular machine has always been a task that has aggravated me. Telling what services have been installed is pretty easy, discovering if...
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Monitoring For Endless Index Defragmenting – September 2015
It’s been quite a while since I last took a look at my script to monitor for endless index defragmenting by Ola Hallengren’s index maintenance scripts. Before running this version, I suggest you read...
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Extended Events and Fixed Schemas
Working with databases, XML, and many software applications, it is not uncommon to deal with fixed schemas. In the database world, it is fairly fundamental to have some sort of schema. The schema...
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My Board Qualities
I’m going to hopefully show examples of some qualities I have that will benefit me if chosen as a board member. I’m going to do that by pretending you folks asked me some questions. Here we...
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PolyBase Technology, Instance Feature or Common Feature?
PolyBase is a new feature added to the SQL Server 2016. This feature includes PolyBase technology that enables truly integrated querying across Hadoop non-relational data and SQL Server relational data...
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ScriptDom versioning issues
I installed the 2016 SSMS client recently and in one way or another any of my apps that I have written that use the DacFx ScriptDom have all broken in slightly different ways. One app throws a type...
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