You just had a great weekend. You go grab your coffee and before you take a sip a manager grabs you and says, “we need your help.” We need to migrate a very large database to our new data center. We need to keep the data in sync and have a short period of downtime when we cutover.
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Grant Fritchey walks through a real troubleshooting saga – using Wine, a shim DLL, a misconfigured registry entry, and a lot of trial and error – to get a BridgeCom Maverick radio’s Windows CPS running on Linux Mint.
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In this guide, learn all about GraphQL: what it is, how it works, the problems it solves, and how to design the perfect schema – one that holds up as systems keep changing.
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When loading data using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to import data from a CSV file, every single one of the columns in the CSV file has double quotes around the data. When using the Data Flow Task to import the data I have double quotes around all of the imported data. How can I import the data and remove the double quotes?
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Get PostgreSQL running in Docker in minutes with this step-by-step setup guide. Learn to pull the image and run a container
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We are building a new data platform with Microsoft Fabric and we’re using the warehouse for our “gold layer”. We don’t have real-time ingestion or analytic requirements, but we have a use case where we want to send an alert if a certain threshold is reached. Ideally, the alert is sent when a SQL query returns a result set.
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How to build an app through an LLM: switching from CoPilot to Claude, a directional term-lookup feature
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I eventually found an explanation for this error message that, while not completely satisfactory, did lead me to diagnose wider-reaching I/O issues on the affected instance and led me to a better understanding of latching in general.
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Should SQL Server databases enforce foreign key constraints? A veteran DBA breaks down the real arguments
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Since the transition from DTS to SSIS, I have found myself looking for alternative ways to do simple tasks such as exporting data from SQL Server into text files. SSIS is a far more powerful tool than DTS, but I generally try to stay away from it for simple operations. With the combination of a few T-SQL commands this tip shows you a simple way to export data to text files.
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On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers