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Session Target Metadata
With the ability to find the metadata for deployed session, events and actions firmly under the belt, the natural progression would lead one to find the metadata for the target(s) attached to a...
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Monitoring For Endless Index Defragmenting – October 2015
This is the first of three big script updates this month, so stay tuned!I’ve written before about how my SQL script evolve over time. Well, the script I just published last month has already been...
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SQL 2016 Row-Level Security Demo: Users with various clearance levels
SQL 2016 is right around the corner and one of the new security enhancements promised is Row-Level security for tables. It’s a great new feature and pretty easy to implement. I have created a simple...
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Code Review This Procedure
Earlier this week we encountered a web-site outage caused by a database procedure. I’m going to blog about that problem (in detail) in a post scheduled for next week. But before I publish that post, I...
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SQL Server – Script to generate Read-Only Routing URLs
If you are familiar with the new feature Read-Only Routing introduced in SQL Server 2012 with AlwaysOn then you should keep this script to generate URLs to be used in Read-Only Routing configuration....
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SQL Server – Dynamically Generate Scripts for Configuring Read-Only Routing...
Read-only routing refers to the ability of SQL Server to route incoming read-intent connection requests, which are directed to an availability group listener, to an available readable secondary...
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SQL Server – Configuring custom Load Balancing in SQL Server 2012 and 2014...
Starting with SQL Server 2012, AlwaysOn Availability Groups provided group level high availability for any number of databases for multiple secondaries known as ‘replicas’. The secondary replicas allow...
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Oregon SQL Saturday 2015 Keynote
This year we are honored to have a particularly special guest kicking off our SQL Saturday event on October 24th. Microsoft is once again moving to a front-line position as a leader in Business...
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SET Operations and Metadata
Having covered the core concepts of deployed session metadata (events, actions, targets, predicates), there is one more topic to cover. This is more of a subset of those concepts in that this applies...
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019 – 24 HOP Questions Answered - WaterOx Consulting
24 HOP Questions Answered In WOxPod!, episode # 019 – “24...The post 019 – 24 HOP Questions Answered appeared first on WaterOx Consulting.
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Coding naked.
Me, circa 1992. This is not the most embarrassing picture of me from that time period.True story: when I was in college, I was the lead singer (if you can call it that) for a goth rock Christian rave...
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My handy IoT Toolkit: What businesses forget about IoT
I recently did a brief blog post for Izenda on IoT and business intelligence, and this part of my IoT series expands on some of the themes there.The Internet of Things is a new phenomenon; that said, a...
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Your PASS Speaker Idol 2015 Judges
I’m pleased to announce the judges for this PASS Speaker Idol 2015 are:Mark SimmsJoey D’AntoniAllen HurtAndre KammenHope FollyThese judges will be joined by Karen Lopez at the final session so that we...
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the b̶o̶m̶b̶ MVP
still not cutting the mustardI would like to say a big thanks to those few people who recently voted for me to receive an MVP award. Being nominated by someone you look up to or your peers is quite...
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Thank You Community
All I can say is, “Wow…Thank you!”. I won a seat on the PASS Board of Directors and it’s very surreal. I am beyond excited, but not for what happened. I’m excited and energized for what is to come....
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Video of #sqlrelay talk - build a ci pipeline in 55 minutes
My session yesterday was recorded, apart from the fact that me and mark were having a chat for about 25 minutes before it kicked off it seemed to work quite...
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Indexed views on any core SQL server edition–The video
A few months back I created a blog post showing that you can indeed create and use indexed views on any core SQL server edition. It has proved to be one of my most read blog posts. Since then...
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Are You Going To PASS Summit 2015? I Need Your Help!
This year at the PASS Summit I’m delivering a rather ambitious and risky session. Here’s the abstract:Analyzing Audience Reaction to the PASS Summit KeynoteIf you’ve been to PASS Summit before, you...
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Your PASS Speaker Idol 2015 Top 12 Are…
The time has come. It’s time to announce who the 12 people who will be competing for the glory that comes with beating down 11 of your #sqlfamily members in public. These 12 fine folks will be...
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Attending PASS Summit? Take a great Tuesday precon!
We’re just two weeks away from the PASS Summit in Seattle, and there is most definitely still time to get into our Tuesday pre-conference session, “The Enterprise Scripting Workshop“. That’s a full...
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