SQLBits XI recently announced
When I saw an email from SQLBits announcing SQLBits XI in East Midlands in my inbox this morning, it simply...
2012-11-14
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Art
Your online security is only as good as the weakest link
Over the weekend I received an email supposedly from Microsoft Live wanting me to verify my account and provided a...
2012-10-26 (first published: 2012-10-24)
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OVER() clause two simple ways on two different days
I’ve been aware of this clause in TSQL for a long time, but I’ve never really used it. Mainly because...
2012-09-26
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Suppressing namespace attributes in nested select statements when using FOR XML workaround
I was helping out on the forums the other day with a user who had stumbled across the quirk of...
2012-08-28
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Script to find orphaned/unreachable job steps within your SQL jobs
SQL jobs are great as the SQL agent job engine allows for very granular control over jobs that are created...
2012-08-23
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Using XQuery to transform multiple xml nodes to a single xml node with comma separated string value
Not another comma separated string blog post I hear you say! I know that this topic has probably been done...
2012-07-13
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Moving xml child elements to its parent using XQuery
I haven’t been able to do much XQuery development recently which is a shame as I love developing with the...
2012-07-09
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Unable to activate a Windows 2003 VM on Hyper-V behind a proxy
Ok, so this is not strictly a post about SQL itself (and it's about a fairly old OS), but I...
2012-06-25
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Shredding a simple xml structure to a single row flat table
I was helping out a user on the forums the other day where they were asking questions about shredding an...
2012-05-22 (first published: 2012-05-16)
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Command line to configure windows firewall for SQL server access
I regularly deploy SQL Server to new Windows Server 2008 hosts and one thing that I find quite a chore...
2012-05-10
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Blogs
Azure chaos STUDIO
By Arun Sirpal
Chaos engineering is fun but especially important when building solutions in the cloud. It...
Announcing a New Book on SQL from 3Cloud Authors
By DataOnWheels
I am proud to announce the launch of a new book, centered around the...
Identify the (Top 20) most expensive queries across your SQL Server using Query Store
Script to identify the most expensive queries on your database server using the Query...
Forums
Help with BCP in SQL 2022
We have a stored procedure that calls xp_cmdshell in order to use the BCP...
PREEMPTIVE_COM_GETDATA when using DISTINCT in remote query.
Replacing an old server with a newer one. A job that runs fine on...
Job schedules
Hi All, Assume that I have SQL Server Agent Job name:"TestJob". I am on...
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