For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting. These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be less than useful, and spaced out to [...]
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront. As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value. Some posts from years gone by that you [...]
There are countless sources for information on SQL Server available today. There are books, webcasts, conferences, and blogs. With all of these sources, it is easy to forget that there are white papers available from Microsoft. It is important that we make an effort to read the white papers that are available. The trouble is, [...]
We are down to the last few days before first SQL Saturday in Fargo. It’s been some work pulling it all together, but with the help of Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt), Sarah Strate (Blog | @DanceM0m), and Jes Borland (Blog | @grrl_geek), we are almost ready for the weekend. The question I have for you is… [...]
In last week’s post, I talked about the steps required to backup a Azure SQL Database. That post leaves us asking what’s the use of having a backup of a database, if you aren’t going to restore it somewhere. And more importantly, if you can’t restore a database, or don’t know how, then the backup [...]
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting. These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be less than useful, and spaced out to [...]
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront. As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value. Some posts from years gone by that you [...]
When I first started working with Azure SQL Databases, I wasn’t sure what it would take to backup a database. In fact, I wasn’t even sure if this concept was appropriate when it came to databases hosted in “the cloud”. What I found was that the concept of backing up databases in the Azure cloud [...]
Each release of SQL Server is chalk full of new features and an assorted amount of bells and whistles. Some of these, like Availability Groups and ColumnStore, are great additions and their introduction includes much fanfare. Among all of those new features, is the occasional little bell which offers us a chance to change how we investigate SQL [...]
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting. These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be less than useful, and spaced out to [...]
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