Azure – What is a Shared Access Signature?
Using a Shared Access Signature (SAS) is usually the best way to control access rights to Azure storage resources (like a container for backups) without exposing the primary /...
2019-09-08
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All About SQL
Azure Storage Explorer
I only ever use the storage explorer when managing my blobs, files, queues within storage accounts. It is your single view access point for all your storage needs and...
2019-09-04
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DBCC CHECKDB – Msg 7928, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 The database snapshot for online checks could not be created.
Do you execute DBCC CHECKDB on your Azure SQL Database? From past experience I know some people do, I would suggest not to bother. Why? Well I have mentioned...
2019-08-23
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Azure SQL Database Script for Size
Sometimes you may not want to flip over to the Azure portal to grab the database size, such as the used space below. So here is a handy script...
2019-08-12
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Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud
Microsoft and Oracle recently announced a joint cloud partnership (I have seen the word multi/cross-cloud to explain this) which I found very fascinating to read. It is currently in...
2019-08-07
25 reads
Azure SQL Database Clustered Columnstore Index
You can read about columnstore indexes here (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/transforming-your-data-in-azure-sql-database-to-columnstore-format/). I won’t rehash the material but high level, these index types are optimized for analytical queries and high compression of data...
2019-08-06
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SQL Server Management Studio
Hopefully you know that SSMS is a separate install from the main SQL Server install. You can find the binaries from Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms) Using SSMS version 18.2, whilst playing...
2019-08-01
79 reads
SQL server and Java?
I was generally reading about SQL Server and how things have changed since the days of just having it within a Windows Eco-system only. It then led me to...
2019-07-29
83 reads
Azure SQL Database Connect and Query
There is a lightweight and quick way to start querying your database in Azure which doesn’t involve SQL Operations Studio or Management Studio. You can use the query editor...
2019-07-25
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Moving Databases into Azure SQL Elastic Pools
Quite a simple requirement (when I needed it a few months ago). Study my Azure SQL database environment below. As you can see I have a standard elastic pool...
2019-07-22
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers