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Recommended reading from mrdenny for October 03, 2014
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. Dirty Secrets of the CASE Expression Knee-Jerk Wait Statistics : PAGEIOLATCH_SH Don’t...
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Where to find the Azure PowerShell SDK ToolKit
If you do basically any work with Azure you’ll need to get the Azure PowerShell ToolKit at some point. Now finding the Azure PowerShell SDK Download page is a royal pain. So to make life easier I’ve...
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Recommended reading from mrdenny for April 17, 2015
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US #WTF? Analysing...
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Recommended reading from mrdenny for May 22, 2015
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. SQL Server 2005 support ends April 2016 – Here’s why that’s a good thing Server’s...
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Splitting Files for SQL DW
When doing data warehouse loads into SQL DW you’ll want to break your single large file that you extract into multiple smaller files in order to do loads into the SQL DW (via Azure Blob Storage) as...
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Be Careful When Starting Up Azure VMs Running SQL Server
So Microsoft has done something pretty dumb with the Azure VMs which are running Microsoft SQL Server. By default the front end firewall (the one that allows or blocks traffic from the public Internet...
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Would you like Microsoft to pay for you to move to Azure?
Have you been wanting to move some of your services up to Azure, but you don’t have the budget to move them up to the cloud? Microsoft has an excellent deal for you. Microsoft will pay for (at least...
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This may come as shocking news to some, but Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL DB (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL DB, SQL Azure Database, or whatever name you know it as) are very much not the...
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