My day to day work machine is a Windows 10 HP laptop. It remains docked at my desk where it happily helps me to go about my daily business. However, my backup machine, is an Apple MacBook Pro. It’s small footprint and ease of use allows me to easily shift […]
Azure SQL Database: Great Choice for Modern Cloud Applications
Microsoft offers several options for moving your SQL Server workloads to Azure. If you’re looking to host modern cloud applications, your best option is Azure SQL Database Service. For an overview of the business benefits of using data infrastructure services in the cloud, download “Future-Proof Your Data Infrastructure with Azure: […]
Finding Foreign Key Child Records In SQL Server
Foreign keys help to ensure referential integrity between tables. In other words, parent records cannot be deleted if there are child records present. This is a great thing and if you aren’t using foreign keys currently, you really should be. While very helpful with referential integrity foreign keys can introduce […]
Changing MaxDop For Resumable Index Create Operations
I’ll admit it, sometimes I’m wrong. Recently I blogged about the usefulness of a newer feature that was enhanced with the release of SQL Server 2019. Resumable Indexes operations was introduced with SQL Server 2017 however it was limited to only REBUILD operations. With the release of SQL Server 2019, […]