By default, SQL Prompt shows code auto-completion suggestions automatically, and continuously. 90% of the time this is exactly what you want, but there are other times where you just need a bit of space - Phil Factor shows how.
2017-10-02
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Deploying IaaS solutions in Microsoft Azure offers benefits that leverage agility, resiliency, and scalability built into the underlying platform. However, when dealing with business-critical workloads, customers typically want to also provide high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities in a manner that they can control. Trying to implement this approach in the cloud by following the procedures applicable in on-premises datacenters frequently presents challenges. This article focuses on these differences in the context of deployment of SQL Server Failover Clustering in Azure.
2017-09-29
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This post is going to walk you through the process of creating an SQL Management Server.
2017-09-28
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How difficult can it be to produce a simple hierarchical list in JSON, YAML, XML and HTML from a SQL Server table that represents a simple hierarchy within an organisation. Well once you know, it is easy and William Brewer is on a mission to tell you how.
2017-09-28
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Matteo Lorini shows how to setup a project in SSMS to organize files.
2017-09-27
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In Azure SQL Data Warehouse we can use BCP to export or import the data. In this article, we will show how to do it.
2017-09-26
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Brent Ozar, Erik Darling, and Tara Kizer think about what they would change or fix if they had access to SQL Server’s source code.
2017-09-26
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A note of caution on the use of sp_helptext to script out objects.
2017-09-25
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SQLCLR is now considered a robust solution to the few niche requirements that can't be met by the built-in features of SQL Server. Amongst the legitimate reasons for avoiding SQLCLR, there is the fear of getting bogged down in code with special requirements that is difficult to debug. Darko takes a real example, extending the features of sp_send_dbmail, to demonstrate that there need be few terrors in SQLCLR.
2017-09-25
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OPENQUERY arrives with a lot of baggage. Try this alternative technique to inserting stored procedure results into a new table.
2017-09-22 (first published: 2016-03-22)
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By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
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I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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