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I’ve always felt responsible for making such a big deal about the differences between estimated and actual plans. I implied in the first

With data lakes becoming popular, and Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 being used for many of them, a common question I am asked about

Not something you’ll do too often, but you might find yourself doing this if you are setting up PoCs and removing them. A

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get bloggingI went to check a

When studying Azure one of the things you’ll be asked to learn is the Powershell commands that can control, well, pretty much everything

Recently I needed to write a PowerShell script that could build a backup set from a collection of backups stored in Azure Blob

When working with SQL Server running containers the Error Log is written to standard out. Kubernetes will expose that information to you via kubectl.

In a previous post, I discussed the public preview of Azure SQL Database Serverless.  This is a newer product released from Microsoft for the Azure

It’s two weeks to our next SQL in the City Summit, this time in Sydney. I’m excited to be going back, though it’s a

Today I’m concluding my series on SQL Server execution plans by sharing the specific steps I take when troubleshooting a slow performing query.