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Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy….
From the SQL Server blogs
- Making SQL Backups better with #Powershell – Mike Fal (Blog|Twitter)
- Reporting From Log Shipped Secondary STANDBY mode – Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter)
- Geek City: Creating New Tools for Statistics – Kalen Delaney (Blog|Twitter)
- Medians pre-SQL 2012 – Rob Farley (Blog|Twitter)
- Designing Indexed Views for OLTP Workloads – Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter)
- EAV data model meets Clustered Columnstore – Tony Rogerson (Blog|Twitter)
- Are You Getting the Benefits of Virtualization? – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
- Am I Alive? SQL Connectivity Checks with #Powershell – Mike Fal (Blog|Twitter)
- Using Templates With SQL Server Management Studio – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter)
- Optimizing Substring Search Performance in SQL Server – Dmitri Korotkevitch (Blog)
- Three reasons to use Extended Events – Jes Borland (Blog|Twitter)
- Random Unexplained Replication Job Failure – Denny Cherry (Blog|Twitter)
- SQL Windowing Functions: ROWS vs. RANGE – Klaus Aschenbrenner (Blog|Twitter)
SQL Community Conversations
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- Script to find SID mismatches from SQL to Windows – Nice script shared for the solution
- Favourite DBA Job Interview Questions – Have you asked these/been asked yourself?
- Get after it – Excellent advice for developing your career as a Data Professional
Other Stuff Worth Reading
- 5 Essential Elements of an Email That Respects People’s Time
- The Basics of 3D Printing in 2015
- Out of control AI will not kill us, believes Microsoft Research chief
- Facebook says it caused fault that sent services offline
If you have an article/blog post suggestion for inclusion, a question about SQL Server or just want fancy a chat then get in touch. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.
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