Data consistency errors are the nightmares of database administrators (DBAs) and when we notice “Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data movement” explanation in any error message, we are sure of getting in trouble. In this article, we will discuss the details of this data consistency problem.
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The recent trend proves that the adoption of the Cloud has much greater significance and importance in modernizing IT. If you are working on migrating the on-premises SQL Server to Microsoft Azure cloud, you need to have a better understanding of the key differences between Azure SQL databases and SQL Server on Azure VMs and options that work best for you.
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This article will talk about loading data into Azure SQL databases from Azure Blob Storage with the help of Azure Data Factory.
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In this 33rd article of SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will use extended events to monitor the availability group.
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Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a popular cross-platform (Windows, Linux) tool for database professionals. It provides various useful features such as T-SQL editor, Visualizations, insights, Peek definitions, Notebooks, Git integration, extensions and more. Extensions add new functionality in the ADS. Microsoft provides several useful extensions. We have already covered few useful extensions in the Azure Data Studio category on SQLShack.
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This article will discuss one of the powerful analytics services in Azure – Azure Synapse Analytics, along with its components, features, security, and more.
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In this article, we will learn the SQL Server clustered index concept and some internal details. Indexes are the database objects that accelerate the performance of data accessing when are designed properly. A clustered index is one of the main index types in SQL Server and the working principle is a bit complicated but in the next sections of this article, we are going to simply learn the clustered index working principle and uncover the secrets.
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In the previously published articles in this series, we talked about the Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) and how to use the technology to build and manage SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages. Besides managing SSIS packages, we can also manage SSAS models and build databases using BIML.
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In this 32nd article on SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will discuss the process to apply a service pack or Cumulative packs for AG replica instances.
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In this 31st article of the SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will explore how you can use the secondary replica SQL database for your workloads.
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In this article, we are going to learn about the db_datareader role. It is a fixed, database-level role. The database-level roles are a group of security principals that are used to manage the permissions within the databases more efficiently. There are two types of database-level roles. One is a predefined database-level role, and another is custom database-level roles. The custom database-level roles can be created by the database administrator or the member of the db_owner role.
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In this article, we will learn cloning an Azure SQL Database.
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It is the 30th article in the SQL Server Always On Availability Groups series and explores column-level SQL Server encryption with AG groups.
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In this article, you’ll learn the approach to integrate MongoDB data source using data virtualization technique in SQL Server 2019. In this article, you can see how SQL Server 2019 provides a platform to create a modern enterprise data hub using data virtualization technology and the PolyBase technique.
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In this article, we will install the SQL Server Express edition on Windows Server 2016 using a SQL Server Docker container.
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In this article, we will learn how to use Apache JMeter to perform a load test on SQL Server. This test type enables us to measure the application behaviors under specific conditions so that it enables us to observe a variety of resource consumptions (CPU, memory, latency, response times, etc) and it also helps to detect the performance bottlenecks. Database testing can help to find out and identify the problem when the database working under high workloads with multiple users. The database people can identify and fix the performance issues before publishing the database into the production through these tests.
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In this 29th article of the SQL Server Always On Availability Groups series, we configure the AG between SQL Server Linux instances.
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In this article, we will take a look at how to create a serverless Azure SQL database.
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We will be discussing one of the most common prediction technique that is Regression in Azure Machine learning in this article. After discussing the basic cleaning techniques, feature selection techniques and principal component analysis in previous articles, now we will be looking at a data regression technique in azure machine learning in this article.
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Database professionals get the standard requirement for SQL database restores from production to non-production instances. As you know, SQL Server runs on the Linux and Windows operating systems starting from SQL Server 2016. Suppose you are exploring the SQL Server Linux instance features and configurations.
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In this article, we will learn to create an Azure SQL Database with built-in sample data.
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In this article, we will see different methods to copy the Azure SQL database. With the advent of all the business dynamics available in today’s IT industry, there is a huge paradigm shift towards automation. You need to constantly innovate and keep moving forward.
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Non-Equi join in SQL Server sounds like something abstract (and fancy), but it’s not so abstract (and fancy) at all. The same stands for equi joins. After reading this article, I hope you’ll agree on that with me. Today’ I’ll try to explain what they are and when you should use them. So, let’s start.
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In this 28th article for SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we explore the high-availability for the SQL Server PolyBase(SSB) external tables using AG groups.
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In this 27th article of the SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will discuss various failover modes for AG databases.
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