In my blog post last night on Days 1 and 2 of the PASS Summit, I included the following comment: (Along with that, I think having "hy...

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One of the frequently quoted ETL best practices is to disable your non-clustered indexes during a data load.  Basically the conventional wis...

I am working on an Azure SQL Database migration from an on-premises VM, and at the client's request I am working through the BACPAC Impo...

There has been a lot of noise over the last few weeks since it was announced that due to financial constraints related to canceling the in-p...

I was just working on a new SQL job, and part of creating the job was adding a few new tables to our DBA maintenance database to hold data f...

I have held various certifications through my DBA career, from CompTIA A+ certification back when I worked help desk (I'm old) through t...