(Christos Matskas) Azure Blob Storage is the essential foundation of most Azure services. It is important to understand how this service actually works, the types of storage resilience offered and how the service is charged.

(Greg Larsen) There may be a time when you want to move a table from one file group to another. There could be lots of different reasons for wanting to move your data file. One of the reasons why you might want to do this is to improve performance.

(David McGahey) Join is a powerful SQL operation implemented across most database types and familiar to database users. Join is typically used to select and combine information from multiple database tables.

(Nat Sundar) In the last tip we learned about setting breakpoints for the SSIS package and the container. What other configuration options are there for debugging a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package?

(Kenneth Fisher) It’s been almost 3 years since I updated these SPs! I can’t believe so much time has gone by! Well, I’m sure all of you have been holding your collective breath but I finally have some new updates. I’m particularly excited about the @DropTempTables and @Output options.

(Parikshit Savjani) DBCC CLONEDATABASE feature was first introduced in SQL Server with SQL Server 2014 SP2 and was later added to SQL Server 2016 with SP1. The primary design goal for DBCC CLONEDATABASE which the SQL Product team had in mind is to provide mechanism to create fast, minimally invasive

(Pinal Dave) The SQL Product team makes a continuous change in the product which sometimes causes unpredictable behaviors in the SQL Server engine. One of such change was done in SQL Server 2012 which caused the behavior which I just said in the subject line Identity Column.

(Arun Sirpal) A non-technical post but something I have been asked about few times so I thought that I would put pen to paper and tell you about my journey on becoming a senior DBA.

(Paul White) This article looks into selectivity and cardinality estimation for predicates on COUNT(*) expressions, as may be seen in HAVING clauses. The details are hopefully interesting in themselves. They also provide an insight into some of the general approaches and algorithms used by the cardi

(Chris Webb) Quite a few people (Ken Puls, Reza Rad and today Chris Koester) have blogged about how the M date/time zone functions work in Power Query/Power BI, and the related problem of turning a UTC time into the actual time in any given location taking Daylight Saving Time changes into account.