I thank Reitse Eskens (Blog|Twitter) for hosting T-SQL Tuesday #161. The topic for this month is Having Fun with T-SQL. I also want to acknowledge Adam Machanic’s vision behind this project. I learned a lot from some T-SQL Tuesdays and participated in a few. Thank you, Steve Jones (Blog|Twitter), for coordinating this program. If you are interested to […]
View Event: Azure SQL DB Backups – Isn’t Microsoft taking care of that? Most people think you no longer have to care about backups once you move to the cloud. You still need to confirm that you do not violate your company policy and regulatory requirements because of the default values. In this session, we […]
View Event: What the heck is a checkpoint, and why should I care? In SQL Server, a checkpoint is an internal process that writes dirty pages and transaction log records from memory to disk and marks a point in the transaction log. An 8K page is the fundamental data storage unit in SQL Server. SQL […]
