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When I talk about knowing the struggles with the Cloud (as I did recently at PASS 2022), I really mean it, and this is one example of it. This is the case of …
If you read my previous article on how to configure a Linked server to Oracle , you know that I feel like someone is plotting to keep the topic of how to get …
On my GitHub you can find the slides for my presentation @ Data Saturdays 001 in Pordenone
It definitely was his plan, all along Following an Oracle migration to a new version (19c on AWS RDS), I had to update the related linked server in a SQL …
Good news everyone! As always, I’ve updated the SQL Server Diagnostic Notebook to include the latest updates to the source scripts No new addition this …
The recently released Extension Generator for Azure Data Studio has opened up yet another way to ship Notebooks and Books to ADS allowing you to easily author …
Great News Everyone! As detailed in my previous article, you can now create extensions containing SQL (note)books and publish them on the Azure Data Studio …
The 2020 global coronavirus pandemic has shown how Health, Food, and Logistics are essential services to allow the integrity of a nation in a time of need. …
Oh boy, this is a spinoff of my previous post on “How To Use Grafana (On Docker) To Monitor Your Sql Server (Eventually On Docker Too) – Feat. Influxdb …
As you may know, I’m from Italy; at the moment we’re experiencing the most difficult medical emergency in our history due to the new coronavirus. As …
In this container-centric era to complement my SQL Server instance on docker (previous articles here) I’ve looked over containerized monitoring solutions, …
Just a quick note, the SQL Diagnostic Book has been updated, here is the changelog: Updated FirstResponder’s Kit and Glen Berry’s Scripts Added SQL …
I had a conversation recently that started a train of thoughts related to database, cloud providers, and risk. Should we treat DBs like investments and …
With the 1st CU for SQL 2019 released just yesterday, and Microsoft updating the docker image right away, the only natural response for me was to update the …
Welcome to 2020! I wanted to start this year by giving to all my fellow consultants another way to troubleshoot our beloved SQL Servers; I’ve already …
Guys, you should stop doing this, there are reasons if it’s not recommended to log into the SQL Server Machine via RDP as opposed to using a client on …
I’ll be presenting my session on “How to use PowerBi as a Free monitoring tool” this Saturday in Parma. Here you can check the session …
I wanted to install and test SQL Server 2019 on a new machine, without the hassle to create a VM from scratch, since I had none of my resources from this new …
Good news everybody! As you may know if you follow me on Linkedin , I’ve been selected as one of the GroupBy Speakers for the last GroupBy session for …
Note: I'll be focusing on Azure Cloud and SQL Server, but these considerations are valid for any Cloud/DB Vendor. Whenever people talk about “The …
Machine learning is the buzzword of the moment, so I wanted to talk about that sweet ML here too. For a project that I’m working on, I’ve been …
Since about a couple of versions ago, Azure Data Studio introduced Jupyter Notebooks support for SQL Server (and with SQL Server 2019 “Big Data …
Recently I had to look up the definition for a bunch of SQL objects and didn’t want to manually retrieve them manually in SSMS (with Create Scripts) or …
Working with strings in SQL Server isn’t as easy or powerful as using any programming language, but, I’m sure that more than once you had to to some …
in some projects I have a lot of Dynamic SQL going on, some queries are fast, some queries are slow, it depends on how the dynamic statement is actually put …
Most of the support request I get involved with can be summarized with the following keywords: “slow” + “datawarehouse” + …