Being Responsible for Data
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
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
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
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.
Passing parameters to query without TVFs
This article looks at an interesting way to help your users get filtered data from a TVF instead of using a stored procedure or specialized view.
What motivates you to do your best?
In today's guest editorial: the motivation to do our best must come from within.
Who's Responsible?
If mistakes are made, employees can be held financially responsible by some companies. Do we need to worry about this in our industry?
Blogs
New Job -> Week 3 -> Creating Alerts
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Using SQL Alerts to Spot Suspicious Activity in SQL
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Forums
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Azure SQL database AAD user management
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