T-SQL Tuesday #42 – The Long and Winding Road
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will host the party, and everyone that want’s to can write a blog about a specific...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #43 – Hello, Operator?
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will host the party, and everyone that want’s to can write a blog about a specific...
View ArticleError deleting checkpoint file
One of the many tasks of being a DBA is to monitor the SQL Server. This doesn’t mean you only keep an eye on daily performance, but you need to monitor the whole process. This means you need to monitor...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #46 – Rube Goldberg Machine
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will host the party, and everyone that want’s to can write a blog about a specific...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #48 – Cloud Atlas
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will host the party, and everyone that want’s to can write a blog about a specific...
View ArticleIncremental updates with Change Data Capture
When designing a database or ETL process, for example loading your production data into a reporting environment, you always start your design with performance in mind. In the beginning of the project,...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #49 – Wait for it…
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will host the party, and everyone that want’s to can write a blog about a specific...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #50 – Automation: yea or nay
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will host the party, and everyone that want’s to can write a blog about a specific...
View ArticleBackup and relax?
Keeping a good backup strategy is a must for every DBA and database developer. But just creating a backup isn’t enough. Perhaps you don’t have enough storage to store the full backups of your database...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #51 – Place Your Bets
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will host the party, and everyone that want’s to can write a blog about a specific...
View ArticleRestoring or Moving a database with CDC enabled
When you have CDC enabled on your database, and you want to move it on another instance or restore it somewhere, you need to take some extra steps to make sure CDC is transferred correctly. When asking...
View ArticleTime traveling with SQL Server 2016: Temporal tables
Since the release of the first publicly available SQL Server 2016 CTP2, we have a whole list of new and cool features we can start using. One of those features is called temporal tables (or...
View ArticleObfuscating your data with SQL Server 2016 Dynamic Data Masking
In today’s IT landscape, data security is a big deal. Just ask people like Troy Hunt (Blog | @troyhunt), who is a security expert, how losing data can destroy your company. Companies all over the world...
View ArticleWhere to find backup- and restore history
Interesting questions don’t always need to be hard to answer. Earlier this week I was asked “How can I see what backup was restored on environment X?”. The answer is as interesting as the question…...
View ArticleRunning maintenance on Azure SQL databases
This article was recently published on dev.getroadmap.com: To keep your data healthy and topfit, we all know you need to run something called database maintenance on your databases. This prevents...
View ArticleBuild 2017: Administrating databases via Azure portal and Cloud Shell
This week I attended the Build conference in Seattle, and during the keynote on the first day (at around 1:01:00), Scott Hanselman (Blog | @shanselman) revealed the Cloud Shell integration in the Azure...
View ArticleAutomatically convert contained database to non-contained for replication
This article was recently published on dev.getroadmap.com: In one of my previous posts, I described how to setup replication to an Azure SQL database. This works like a charm, and I still highly...
View ArticleRunning database maintenance on Azure SQL DB with Azure Automation
This article was also published on dev.getroadmap.com: Running all of your databases in Azure SQL DB (the PaaS solution, also known as Azure SQL database) is a wonderful thing, except for one...
View ArticleEasy data encryption in Azure
This article was recently also published on dev.getroadmap.com: For those of you who use Azure today, the security discussion must have been a thing on some occasion. Explaining to managers...
View ArticleSchedule and run Azure Automation runbooks via Webhook
In one of my previous posts I wrote about Azure Automation jobs to run your Azure SQL DB maintenance processes. This is a very easy way to schedule your maintenance, but there are some shortcomings...
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