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Darling Data SQL Server Stored Procs in Azure SQL Database
Erik Darling, founder of Darling Data, has created these fantastic stored procedures to query SQL Server more efficiently to get health, log, or performance information. I will go through them here...
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WordPress Error: MySQL server has gone away
I had no idea what to do, so I Googled it Found this link below and tried the repair thing as the settings were in the config file as expected:...
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Dear Women in Tech, You Can Present at EightKB, Too
Last year, I submitted and was accepted to present at the EightKB conference. At first, I thought my current presentation wasn’t advanced enough, but Tracy Boggiano convinced me otherwise. Why did I...
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Using SQL Elastic Pools
Photo by Katie Smith on Unsplash We use SQL elastic pools at work. I needed to learn more about their nuances and help you with some of their challenges. Table of ContentsSetting Up Elastic...
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How Do You Decide What to Learn?
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash There are so many choices and so little time. How do you go about deciding what to learn? I have to delicately balance everything I think I want to learn with...
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Azure SQL DB Failover Groups
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash In today’s fast-paced digital world, keeping your data safe and accessible is more important than ever. That’s where Azure SQL Database steps in, offering a suite of...
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Elastic Jobs for Azure SQL DB
Image by evondue from Pixabay I know if you are a SQL Server DBA using Azure SQL DB, you’ve been sorely missing the agent. Enter Elastic Jobs to help you schedule jobs more easily against Azure SQL...
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Bicep Your Elastic Jobs
I posted on Terraform and Azure SQL last year but wanted to see what Bicep could do this year. I’m going to test Bicep out with Elastic Jobs. Table of ContentsWhat is Bicep?Why Use Bicep? How to Use...
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Part 2: The Modern Azure Data Warehouse – ADF and ADLS
In today’s data-driven world, having the right tools to manage and process large datasets is crucial. That’s where Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) and Azure Data Factory (ADF) come in handy, making it...
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Azure Visual Studio Subscription Errors
I don’t know if Microsoft does their testing in the VS subscriptions or what, but I’ve had many random issues in there over the last while — and a few weeks ago, it culminated in a resource failing to...
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ERD Your Existing Databases
Photo by Hanna Morris on Unsplash There are several tools out there to make your life easier by creating an ERD for your existing db. Everything works pretty well when you have a small number of...
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How to give developers access to Query Store
Photo by Caftos on Unsplash Let’s have devs look at their own query performance. Yes, please, sign me up for that! Sometimes, it’s hard for me to know the best course of action, especially when they...
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Large System Databases on SQL Server
Photo by La-Rel Easter on Unsplash This one is an oldie in my blog drafts, but a goodie! So, I will finally post it after nearly three years of sitting around. Thank you, past self, for documenting...
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Query deadlock info in Azure SQL DB
Photo by Georg Bommeli on Unsplash A couple of weeks ago, a developer came to me and wanted to know how to figure out what was causing a deadlock. I honestly didn’t know where to look or if this was...
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Create a copy of an Azure SQL DB
Photo by Anton Maksimov 5642.su on Unsplash Table of ContentsMake a copy of the databases in the destination server Rolling back to a copy Where I work, we will be migrating data from one set of...
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Export Azure SQL DB to Storage
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash After a data migration, we needed to decommission the old Azure SQL DBs, but we wanted to keep a copy in case we needed anything later. Enter exporting an Azure SQL DB...
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Modifying sp_QuickieStore Returned Column Order
I love QuickieStore, but I wanted some columns to be at the front end of the results returned. Namely, I wanted top_waits, query_sql_text, and query_plan right after database name. This way I don’t...
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Terraform Elastic Jobs
I did a couple of other posts on Elastic Jobs. How to set them up manually: https://sqlkitty.com/elastic-jobs-azure-sql-db/. Use this link to better understand how Elastic Jobs goes together. It will...
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Using Managed Identities with Azure SQL DB
Photo by George Prentzas on Unsplash We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to access the Azure SQL DBs where I work. To make our lives easier, we are implementing managed...
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Data (and Humans) At Rest
Photo by Aleksandar Cvetanovic on Unsplash We talk a lot about data in the data world – imagine that! Sometimes, we talk about data at rest, but when do we all rest? Do we even rest as much as our...
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