SQL Saturday Precon - SSIS Design Patterns
SQL Saturday is hitting Dublin for the first time on March 24th.
2012-03-20 (first published: 2011-12-23)
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Articles
Tips for Upgrading a Cluster to SQL 2008 - Part 2
This article describes my experience in upgrading a four node cluster with three active instances to SQL 2008
2012-03-20
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SQL Server Ranking Functions
SQL Server includes a subset of four ranking functions that can be used to rank the rows of your result set over a partition. This article presents those functions and examples of their use.
2012-03-20
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Financial Rounding of Allocations
When rounded detail quantities are created by an allocation, often the total must foot back exactly to the allocated amount.
2012-03-19
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TSQL Challenge 78 - Parse single field into multiple fields
The database field contains long string with data for Quantity and Parts. The challenge is to parse the data into separate (Quantity and Parts) fields for displaying in a report.
2012-03-19
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SQL Saturday #128 - Istanbul
The first SQL Saturday event in Turkey, on Mar 31, 2012 at the Microsoft office in Istanbul. Sign up and come for a free day of SQL Server training.
2012-03-19
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Steps to Drop an Orphan SQL Server User when it owns a Schema or Role
What do you do when you need to remove an orphaned user, but they are the owner of a Schema or Role on that database?
2012-03-16
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Adding a log shipping monitor
This article describes how to add a log shipping monitor to a log shipping configuration that is already in place.
2012-03-15
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Using The AlwaysOn Feature of SQL Server 2012
This is the first in a four-part series on the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. In this article, AlwaysOn is introduced and contrasted with previous high-availability solutions in SQL Server. The second part of the series will commence with a detailed walkthrough on preparing the environment for AlwaysOn
2012-03-15
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Basics of XML and SQL Server, Part 2: Shredding XML
In Part 2 of this series we will shred an XML document and insert its records into a SQL Server table using both the OpenXML and XQuery methods.
2012-03-14
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
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Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers