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Many organizations have been trying to find better ways to build and deploy software for their customers. Whether they deal with the general public or internal customers, we know that delivering software that customers use can be a competitive advantage. That's the goal of DevOps. While most developers and management want to do this, they sometimes…
Learning new technology can be difficult—especially when it’s a technology in an area you are not familiar with. In this episode, Eugene walks us through some of the challenges he has faced getting started with Azure Synapse. We hope that this episode might be helpful to those trying to learn new features. The show notes and video for today's episo…
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Episode 150 - Artificially Intelligent Query Processing
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Guy and Eitan discuss some new and existing capabilities in the SQL Server engine related to Intelligent Query Processing, and whether our job positions as DBAs are at risk due to the imminent takeover by our robot overlords. Relevant links: Intelligent Query Processing Adaptive Joins (Batch) Intelligent Query Processing Feedback family of features…
The last three years have felt like a bit of a time warp. I'll run into someone or reach out to a friend, thinking that I haven't talked to them in a year or two. Then I realize that it's been 4 or 5 years because the 2020-2022 time frame felt like a year or less. A long year, but still, less than the three years that passed. Life is mostly back to…
Almost every time that I attend an event, I'll end up meeting someone that has had security issues at their company. I'm always surprised how many people have had ransomware or other security problem that didn't get well publicized. It's not like everyone has had one, but out of 100 people, it seems there is at least one issue. Many of us work with…
One of the very common expectations from many SQL developers involves transactions. Many developers (database or application developers) think they can open a transaction, do something, open an inner transaction (nested), and then commit or rollback the inner transaction separate from the outer one. If you've worked with explicit transactions and e…
It would appear Microsoft has run out of words to use for new features/products, so they are just going to recycle existing words for a bit of fun at our expense. In this episode we explore the Azure Data Lakehouse—which is not a data lake, nor a traditional data warehouse and Books Online (BOL) refers to it as Databricks Lakehouse. Luke Moloney wa…
Security has become better and better in many organizations. At the same time, hackers and malicious actors are doing a better and better job of finding new ways to attack systems. Some work to target specific individuals, often because of government or industrial espionage. Most of us aren't likely to deal with those issues, unless we work with (o…
The short answer is no. The longer answer is it depends, and perhaps to be more complete, ChatGPT likely will help us produce the simple, tedious queries with much less effort. There has been a lot of news about AI and ChatGPT and how well it performs for a computer. That last phrase is important because while it's impressive, I don't know that any…
There's a common party question about which 5 people would you invite to a dinner party? Often this is amended to include living or dead people, and it's often interesting to hear people tell you who they'd invite and why. Since most of the people reading this work in technology in some way, I was wondering who you would invite to a party that's re…
In the past, many businesses hired employees whose role was deciding which prices to charge for their goods or services. At one point, organizations largely set prices based on their costs, though over time they tend to look at their competitors and set similar prices. If, however, management from multiple companies went into a room and determined …
Many of us work inside an organization that has a process for building and deploying software. We may find our org doing this well, or we may feel our process is poor with lots of room for improvement. A lot of the discussion around how to be better at building software in the last ten years has been around the philosophy of DevOps. This concept do…
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Episode 260: Contained Availability Groups
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We’re back with another SQL Server 2022 feature—Contained Availability Groups. Have you ever failed over to a secondary node and then found a job or login missing? This new Enterprise-only feature aims to solve this problem by ‘containing’ all the objects—master, msdb, AND the availability database all in one group so you can manage everything you …
Basecamp (formerly 37 Signals) is quitting the cloud. One of the founders gives some reasons, and he had some detail in a tweet on what they've spent in the cloud the last few years. Over USD$3mm on various services, though their costs in search seem very high. I don't, and haven't, run as busy a business as they do, so I don't know if they've trul…
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Episode 149 - 8 Common DBA Mistakes in SQL Server
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Guy and Eitan list several common mistakes done by DBAs in SQL Server. Some relevant links: Architecting Database Dev and Test Environments: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns for SQL Server Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution HADR My Jobs - Open Source Solution by Madeira Columnstore Indexes: Planning and Implementation TSQL Script to Check for We…
I saw this tweet recently, where Richie Rump asked what has changed in T-SQL since the SQL Server 2012 version. A few people from Microsoft responded that there were changes in all versions, and while I think some versions have few changes, I decided to look. SQL Server 2012 introduced the window functions with the OVER() clause to SQL Server. This…
One of the challenges for me when working with customers is getting them to think about how to change their software process. Often they want to solve their problems, but no one wants to alter the way they work. Whether that's the protocol for capturing code or managing servers, it seems that changing the way we work is hard for many people. They w…
When I first started working in technology in the 90s, it was a time of outsourcing lots of work overseas. Many large companies followed the wave of manufacturing in the 70s and 80s by many companies, including lots of semi-conductor manufacturers. I watched as a number of jobs moved overseas, though fortunately not mine. In the early 2000s, I work…
The senior advantage means more to me all the time, though often I feel there are more disadvantages to being around longer than advantages. Getting older is hard, especially physically, and I struggle with that. Having more wisdom, more tolerance, and more patience, are good things, but I'm not sure I would consciously make that trade. In a busine…
I had never heard of a vector database. I assumed this was a specialist type of database used for a particular problem domain, like a streaming database or graph database. There is a need for specialized platforms in certain situations, but I wasn't sure what a vector was. The description I saw for a vector database was that they "... are specifica…
Monitoring your SQL Server instances is important to ensure you can meet your SLAs. Availability, performance, reliability, quality, whatever you care about, it's important that whoever is responsible is looking at how the database is performing. At Redgate, we have multiple teams working on SQL Monitor to enhance and grow it to meet your needs. A …
The #SQLFamily is amazing, at least I think it is. Like many families, it's welcoming, supportive, and comforting. It's also maddening, frustrating, and exacerbating at times. Like most families, or at least the ones I know, it's not perfect, but it's what we have and at the end of the day, most of us get along with each other. It's also an open gr…
I saw this article a few months ago, which talks about engineers at Facebook not knowing where their customers' personal data is stored. The engineers were being questioned in a legal matter, where they were asked to definitively state where all personal PII data for any human was stored by Facebook. Their answer was that they didn't think anyone i…
We collect a lot of data in our databases. Not as much in bytes as a lot of the video/audio/TikTok/Instagram sites, but still enough that many of us are constantly adding storage to our systems. All this data is not only a challenge to manage, but it also means that we are regularly dealing with query tuning issues. Better code, indexes, and more b…
It couldn't have happened to a worse set of people, and I'm glad it did, but I'll still take a positive lesson out of this. A hacker sent a typo in a command to a botnet and lost control. That's kind of funny, and I'm glad it happened. The less botnets, the better, IMHO. The coding in this software didn't have good error handling, which is a lesson…
A while back I ran across a blog post that talks about the difference between database snapshots and database backups. There are certainly some similarities and some differences, as well as an overlap in the places where you might choose to use each of these technologies. Both might be useful as a way to recover from a bad code deployment, but both…
We kick off the new year discussing a new feature in SQL Server 2022 called Transact-SQL snapshot backups. Good luck with the Google search on this feature--we know we had fun. 😊 These are not the snapshot backups you were frustrated with in 2005. We talk a little bit about who will be interested in this feature and what scenarios it will come in h…
Many of you reading this probably work primarily in SQL. Even if you are a developer whose main language is something else, you write a lot of SQL. Even if you have an ORM writing the SQL that goes into production, I bet a lot of you are writing queries against a database to check that the data coming back in your application is correct. As for me,…
