Calling all NZ-based cloud infrastructure gurus! Your Terraform or Ansible-foo is strong? Like the idea of working in a team of smart folks, and yet having the autonomy to make a real mark? How about working from home; sound good to you? Well read on… I’ve been wanting to resurrect …
In my previous blog post I talked about BIML, and how it might revolutionise my approach to creating ETL processes. It’s pretty cool, and very powerful, but there is a bit of a learning curve, so I decided to look for a different way to achieve the same thing, but that …
I’ve used the BIDS Helper Visual Studio add-on for years now, and I’ve seen and heard of BIML, but it’s one of those things I’ve never needed to look into any further than that. Until I discovered that it’s something that would’ve saved me hours of tedious SSIS work! What …
I’ve recently needed to move data from our transactional database (an Azure SQL database), into an Azure SQL Data Warehouse. A definite case of “harder than it needed to be”… What’s an Azure Data Warehouse? I’ll assume if you’ve read this far, you know what a SQL database is. But …
Something’s always bugged me when it comes to managing indexes in SQL Server; keeping track of when I created or dropped them. You can already check just about everything you could want to know about indexes, via handy DMV’s. Need to figure out how much your indexes are being used? …
*Updated 2017-06-28 I’ve recently moved house, and as a result had to change my broadband plan from cable to ADSL (sad face). This also means I’ve gone from having a fixed IP address to a dynamically assigned one. Usually, this wouldn’t be a problem, except when it comes to connecting to the …
I hadn’t been following the news much regarding SQL Server 2016, so when I did some reading the other day I was quite pleasantly surprised by some of the new features announced (not to mention that it looks like SSMS will finally be getting some much needed love). 🙂 We’ve …
We use Red Gate Cloud Services to backup our Azure database, as well as some storage accounts to Amazon EC2 storage, etc. It all works really well 99% of the time, but after a few failures in a short time period I opened a ticket with Red Gate. The errors …
Wow – 2 years and 4 days with no posts. What a slacker… Anyway… I’ve been busy doing a few things in that time. The most relevant probably being that I moved on from Trade Me near the end of 2014, and now work for Timely. This is a small company …
Just a quick post in case anyone else finds this useful; for a report I’ve created, I wanted to have SQL Server versions displayed in a nice, readable form, rather than the usual build number format (e.g. 11.0.3128.0). So I found the very useful SQL Server Builds page (thanks to whoever …