Blog Posts of the Week 2015-05-22 Here’s a collection of blog posts, videos and links that i found useful this week…

Tech Posts

Implementing Continuous Integration for databases I: The Stage
Deploying and Optimizing SQL Server for Virtual Machines
Improvements in Table Variables and Temporary Tables in SQL Server 2014
AlwaysOn Availability Groups and SQL Server Jobs, Part 24: Synchronizing SSIS Packages
AlwaysOn Availability Groups and SQL Server Jobs, Part 23: Maintenance Plan Backups and SSIS Packages
AlwaysOn Availability Groups and SQL Server Jobs, Part 22: Executing Backups
Deploying and Optimizing SQL Server for Virtual Machines
Availability Groups and Columnstore Indexes
Complete Troubleshooting Guide for SQL Server Database Mail
Query Data from Extended Events in SQL Server
SQL Server Monitoring with Powershell and the SQL Server Platform: Data Processing (Part 2 of 3)
Using CLR to replace xp_cmdshell for specific tasks
First thoughts on DataZen
Adding new users & groups in windows
DevOps and the DBA
SSIS Checkpoints
Source control: Using Visual Studio Online in SSMS
Thoughts On All The Recent Power BI/SQL Server 2016 BI/Excel 2016 News
Extending your metadata with Extended Properties
Documenting your SQL Server Database
Continuous delivery and Azure SQL Database achieving the impossible

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