Identify Tables With Dropped Columns
How easily can we find tables with dropped columns that need cleanup?
Poor Database Design Realities
Steve sees that poor database design is the reality of the world and we have to work around that.
Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 3
In part 2 of this series, I showed an example implementation of distributing a long-running workload in parallel, in order to finish faster. In reality, though, this involves more than just restoring databases. And I have significant skew to deal with: one database that is many times larger than all the rest and has a higher growth rate.
Basic Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server Standard
Once Windows Server Failover Clusters have been set up, we can set up Availability Groups in SQL Server. This article will focus on setting up Basic Always-On Availability Groups in SQL Server Standard Edition.
This facilitates High Availability in SQL Server Standard, with three levels of availability and failover:
Asynchronous commit with manual or forced failover,
Synchronous commit with manual or forced failover,
Synchronous commit with automatic failover.
PowerBI premium capacity administration: dataset monitoring and tuning
Over the years Power BI has evolved into a complex and varied ecosystem of tools and solutions, which in its turn demands several supporting roles: there are, of course, developers, data engineers and data scientists, but there is need for one more, i.e. a capacity administrator.
Using AI for the First Draft
What is an AI LLM useful for? Steve thinks a first draft is not a bad way to look at your AI results.
WITspiration - Year 2
A new cohort of WITspiration is strating, the women in technology mentoring circle.
Bridging Snowflake and Azure Data Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide
This article shows how to access Snowflake information from Synapse Analytics.
DBCC CLONEDATABASE is Semi-Discontinued
Microsoft is no longer supporting some uses for DBCC CLONEDATABASE. Read a few of Steve's thoughts on the change.
Who’s Changing the Table? Answers and Discussion
Your challenge for this week was to find out who keeps mangling the contents of the AboutMe column in the Stack Overflow database.
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Export Extended Event Results to CSV or Table
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Book Review – Fundamentals of Data Engineering
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Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs – Part 2
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Multi-Database Marked Transactions
I run a marked transaction across multiple databases with this code:
BEGIN TRAN onemorenewdbTran WITH MARK 'mark from 3 dbs' USE sandbox2 INSERT dbo.AddressTable (AddressID, AddressValue, AddressPostal) VALUES (12, '123 three St', '4444') GO USE sandbox3 INSERT dbo.Logger (logdate, logmsg) VALUES (GETDATE(), 'tran message') GO INSERT sandbox4.dbo.logger (uid) VALUES (700) COMMIT TRAN onemorenewdbTran GOHow many marks are inserted into msdb.dbo.logmarkhistory? See possible answers