Question We’ve been building a replication network of DBs to give us some degree of Always On without paying the full price tag. Currently we have a publisher DB which replicates to a handful of subscribers, so that if the publisher goes down, we can … [Read More]
Back in January, Malathi Mahadevan asked me if I would participate in a book she was working on. The book, “Data Professionals At Work”, is part of Apress Media’s “…At Work” series, an anthology of interviews with Microsoft-focused data professionals
Question We’re working on migrating some SQL Server VMs to Azure SQL Managed Instances. We did an initial backup/restore without a problem: After doing testing, we now need to do a fresh restore from our SQL VMs. We started doing the same process we initially … [Read More]
In 2016, I organized an (unofficial) PASS Summit LGBT Meetup. It was a bit of a last-minute party, and more than once I found myself saying, “Worst case scenario, I’ll end up having a chill cocktail party with some friends.” Turns out, I under estimated … [Read More]
Question I have system where my database gets restored every night, and off late the restore is taking a lot longer from past few days. Here is server config: ES 2637 XEON @ 3.5 Ghz Windows virtual server 2012 R2 hosted in a Hyper V … [Read More]
Question At what size should we consider applying Columnstore Index on a table? Is there a SQL Server storage or design guidance? Our Data Warehouse is 5TB total. Additionally, we have tables which are 100GB to 1TB which compose the database. Just curious if SQL … [Read More]
Question I’m stuck in a way that how to do sum on a column let’s say first column of a table (result from another query) without knowing the column name with something like column position id. it’s something like this Or if it’s in single … [Read More]
On my flight home from a conference in Europe, I found myself watching a documentary on Fred Rogers. This prompted me to reflect on some of the extra special people in my life that have helped me get where I am.
On October 2, 2018 at 11PM EDT, I’ll be joined by John Q. Martin (blog|twitter) for a webinar on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. To sign up, register here. You can access the recording of the session here. Follow-up Q & A from the live … [Read More]
On August 28, 2018 at 2PM EDT, I’ll be joining Melissa Connors (blog|twitter), Kevin Kline (blog|twitter), and Rob Sewell (blog|twitter) for a webinar on advanced SQL Server features. The webinar centers around a real-life case study of technology SentryOne is using in it’s own database. … [Read More]
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