Those who work on various databases, or even those who do not, must have come across the term, Dynamic SQL. Dynamic SQL is basically a programming technique that enables you to build SQL statements dynamically at run time. It allows you to create more general purpose flexible SQL statement because the full text of the […]
2020-05-07
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You want to attach a SQL Server database that does not have the transaction log files and get the following error: "The log cannot be rebuilt because there were open transactions/users when the database was shutdown, no checkpoint occurred to the database, or the database was read-only. This error could occur if the transaction log file was manually deleted or lost due to a hardware or environment failure." In this tip I will help you to successfully attach the transaction log to the problematic SQL Server database.
2020-05-07
Learn how you can fix the duplicated key error in SSAS without editing the source data.
2020-05-05
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Kendra Little demonstrates how to create a SQL Compare filter file and save it to a SQL Change Automation project folder, so that it will be used automatically during development.
2020-05-05
As the world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, technology is making some things better for those of us in isolation. We are also better equipped today to fight the disease. Researchers are using artificial intelligence to quickly develop vaccines and treatments.
2020-05-05
This article will help us to understand how to monitor Azure SQL Database and set up Azure metric alerts. Even though the database in Azure SQL Database is fully managed by Microsoft, we are still responsible for proper database access and performance. Azure does make it easy for us and it can alert on critical […]
2020-05-04
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Phil Factor tackles the questions you were too shy to ask about SQL Server database builds, migrations and deployments.
2020-05-04
In this article in the series, Robert Sheldon explains the differences between direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and storage area networks.
2020-05-04
An introduction to PowerShell that covers basics alone with some more advanced features. It will walk you through from the very beginning to the writing of a few useful scripts.
2020-05-01 (first published: 2017-12-21)
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Sometimes there is a need to export data for a lot of different SQL Server tables into an Excel file. In this tip we look at how we can quickly export several tables into one Excel workbook where each table is stored in a different worksheet.
2020-05-01
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
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