Regular Expression Search & Replace in Visual Studio Code
Kind of a diversion into a Visual Studio Code/Azure Data Studio tip here (this works in both, as well as SQL Server Management Studio). I’m not a regular expression...
2021-08-31
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alevyinroc
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021 – I’m Speaking!
I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at this year’s PASS Data Community Summit! This year’s event runs November 8th through 12th. I am thrilled to...
2021-08-20
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021 - I'm Speaking!
I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at this year’s PASS Data Community Summit! This year’s event runs November 8th through 12th. I am thrilled to...
2021-08-20
5 reads
Troubleshooting Backup Compression for Encrypted Databases
For years, I thought that native backups of databases using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) couldn’t be compressed. Between TDE being limited to Enterprise Edition until SQL Server 2019 and...
2021-06-18
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Troubleshooting Backup Compression for Encrypted Databases
For years, I thought that native backups of databases using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) couldn’t be compressed. Between TDE being limited to Enterprise Edition until SQL Server 2019 and...
2021-06-18
6 reads
Modernizing Your T-SQL: String Aggregation
This is another in a group of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server. SQL Server 2016 gave us the STRING_SPLIT()...
2021-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-18)
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Checking for SQL Server Updates with dbatools
It turns out I was doing this all wrong for months. For the longest time, I’ve been checking my SQL Server instances to see what needs patching with Test-DbaBuild...
2021-04-26 (first published: 2020-04-28)
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T-SQL Tuesday #136: Your Favorite (or Least Favorite) Data Type
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about data...
2021-03-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #136: Your Favorite (or Least Favorite) Data Type
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about data...
2021-03-09
4 reads
Followup for the Kansas City SQL Server User Group
I had a great time speaking at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group on Thursday, February 18th. The more I present my Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools...
2021-02-20
3 reads
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Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!
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SQL Server audit with windows ad group
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Deadlock graph anomaly
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Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale Level 6: Backup and Restore Internals
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale...
Question of the Day
Deprecated Feature Tracking
From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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