Testing your PowerShell scripts is just as important as testing any code. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates how to use the testing tool, Pester, to perform unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
2018-09-20
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In this article, we will see of a quick way to load CSV files from a directory on your computer.
2018-09-18
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Site-wide or region-wide disasters, while undoubtedly more impactful, happen considerably less frequently than downtime resulting from scheduled maintenance events or isolated hardware and software faults. This article provides an overview of the high availability features of Azure SQL Database that mitigate risks affecting services within an individual Azure datacenter, rather than an entire Azure region.
2018-09-18
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Default constraints can lead to assumptions about the values in a column. Combine a check constraint to avoid slip ups.
2018-09-17
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In this tip we look at different examples of how to use the LIKE operator to get the correct results when strings contain wildcard characters. We will also look a function to make this easier to do.
2018-09-17
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When Clippy suggests an index with only one key, look closer.
2018-09-14
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2018-09-13
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As running SQL Server on Linux becomes more common, DBAs must learn and become comfortable with the Linux OS. In this article, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman demonstrates how to create a SQL Server instance running in Linux via a Docker container.
2018-09-13
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This article looks at how Microsoft implemented the Python language support into SQL Server and how it can be used.
2018-09-12
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Setting ANSI_WARNINGS OFF to avoid NULL value elimination warnings can have an impact on the data quality and system behaviour.
2018-09-11 (first published: 2016-08-23)
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By James Serra
Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting...
By Steve Jones
In a previous post, I deployed a model to a database using SQL Compare...
By SQLPals
Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022 ...
Hello SSC Community, I am running into and issue with SSIS creating a text...
Hello SSC Community, I am running into and issue with SSIS creating a text...
Hello SSC Community, I am running into and issue with SSIS creating a text...
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers