There is an interesting court case on who is responsible for the data being posted on the Internet. Steve has a few thoughts today.

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Groups and FCIs Part 1

by Perry Whittle

SQLServerCentral.com

Learn how to get a Failover Cluster Instance set up and configured with Windows and SQL Server. This is part of a series showing how to combine a Failover Cluster Instance of SQL Server with an AlwaysOn availability group.

Piping, Filtering and Using Flyway Output in PowerShell

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Redgate

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Flyway's output is often overwhelmed with verbose messages, most of which we can ignore but some of which provide vital warnings about failed compilations, or useful details about what a migration or callback did. I'll show how to use some pipeline-aware PowerShell functions to filter out and save the bits we want and pass the results along in a form that is useful to the next process in the pipeline.

Using TOP clause in a SELECT statement

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Redgate

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There might be a time when you might want to return just a few rows of a result set, instead of the complete set. This might be useful if you want to just validate a selection criteria or a few rows of data. For whatever the reason the TOP clause can be used to return a specific number or a percentage of rows from a result set. This article will cover using the TOP clause in a SELECT statement and how it can be used to return a partial set of records.