Tag: September 30th 2015

SQL On The Edge #3 – Azure elastic database jobs

Hello and welcome to episode number three of SQL On the Edge! In this episode we’re going to cover Azure SQL elastic database jobs. In the last few months, Microsoft has put a lot of effort in augmenting the elastic…

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SQL Server: migrations/upgrades – 10 things to think about

Here at Pythian we have planned and implemented dozens of migrations and upgrades for our customers. In this blog post I am trying to summarize the 10 most important things to consider when migrating or upgrading a SQL Server environment,…

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Import/export multiple SSIS packages

While I was working on a migration project recently, I had the task of importing and then exporting multiple packages – about 120~ on to a new server. Usually, if there are less numbers of packages we can do this task manually…

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Oracle 12c – adaptive query optimization

Scenario: A user complains that a batch job that is critical for the month end business processing is taking more time than expected. As a DBA you quickly check and identify the sql statement that is running, compare the current execution…

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