Episode 17: Partitioning

Normally we have one specific topic we focus on each episode.  This episode is a little different. The show notes for today's episode can be found at http://sqldatapartners.com/2018/05/16/episode-135-...

16 Touko 201819min

It is not very often the internal codename is used when a product is launched; however, when you think about a database designed with global distribution in mind, CosmosDB makes sense.  I was a bit sh...

9 Touko 201849min

While the ability to shrink data files is available in SSMS, the conventional wisdom is don't do it.  I was extremely curious when I read an email from our guest suggesting the opposite.  In this epis...

3 Touko 201835min

Bang! Pow! Crash!  Besides just awesome fighting techniques, are there things we can learn from superheroes?  My guest, Will Fehringer, gave that very question some thought and came up with some very ...

19 Huhti 201828min

Big Data.  Do you have big data?  What does that even mean?  In this episode I explore some of the concepts of how organizations can manage their data and what questions you might need to ask before y...

11 Huhti 201845min

Heroes in a half shell, PowerShell!  Well, maybe that wasn't the original line, but you know from this program and other places on the internet, PowerShell is all the rage.  In this episode, we wanted...

4 Huhti 201831min

Books online state: "There is nothing a graph database can achieve, which cannot be achieved using a relational database." Why then are we putting graph technology in SQL Server? To help me answer th...

28 Maalis 201832min

To Devops or not to Devops, that is the question. We've talked before about how the developers have all the cool new tools, but this is slowly changing. For those in development or dare I say agile ...

21 Maalis 201842min