• Critical Checks for Oracle DB Tablespaces and Datafiles

    Critical Checks for Oracle DB Tablespaces and Datafiles

    When was the last time you checked on your Oracle database tablespaces and their datafiles, how those things are set up and organized? Are you sure that your tablespaces and datafiles are set up in a way that won’t cause an error the next time data is inserted into a table? If you are coming…

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  • Recovery Options for Azure Key Vaults

    Recovery Options for Azure Key Vaults

    I recently had a post about how to manage deleted Azure Key Vaults: how to find them after they’ve been deleted, how to recover them if you didn’t really want them to be deleted, and how to purge them if you want them to be permanently removed. In today’s post, I am going to cover…

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  • Limitations of Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Pools

    Limitations of Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Pools

    In the past couple of months, I have run into some annoying limitations and unsupported features with T-SQL in our Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools, which is where my team puts our data warehouses for reporting needs across our business. These unsupported features were a bit surprising to me, which is why I’ve decided to…

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