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Matt Gantz in SQL Server How to Measure Replication Latency in SQL Server AlwaysOn Synchronous Availability Groups Learn how to measure replication latency in SQL Server AlwaysOn synchronous availability groups using performance counters and DMVs for better... 25 July 2025 8 min read
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Lee Asher in Python Incrementally Loading Data into Parquet with Python In this article, we'll introduce the Parquet format, explain some strategies for incrementally updating a Parquet repository, and, with a... 17 July 2025 14 min read
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Joe Celko in Theory and design State Transition Constraints About two decades ago, I introduced the concept of transition constraints to show Data Validation in a database is a... 24 June 2025 14 min read
Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman in Oracle Oracle ASM: Monitoring and Managing (Part 2) In the first part of this series, we explored the fundamentals of Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)—a powerful volume manager... 20 June 2025 5 min read
Matt Gantz in Database Administration Replacing a Column in a Large Active SQL Server Table In a previous post I showed how to use a batching strategy to remove large amounts of data from a... 19 June 2025 11 min read
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