Dealing with rejection
“Dear speaker This serves as notice that your session submission was not selected for our upcoming event. We had a lot of sessions to sort through, and unfortunately there...
2020-02-12
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“Dear speaker This serves as notice that your session submission was not selected for our upcoming event. We had a lot of sessions to sort through, and unfortunately there...
2020-02-12
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Welcome to February 2020. It’s the second month of the year 2020! I remember sitting at a server with SQL Server 6.5 installed on it, worrying about the Y2K...
2020-02-05
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Background Fellow Microsoft MVP Troy Hunt (blog | Twitter) has been operating the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) for a number of years now. For the record, “pwned” is...
2020-01-29
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That aging hippie (he likes Apple products and has a goatee) known as Brent Ozar wrote a post recently about his home office studio setup, with a big focus...
2020-01-22
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Here’s something that seems to keep coming up, but not frequently enough for me to write a blog post about until now: You should not install SQL Server from...
2020-01-15
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In August last year I posted about a command line parser problem I ran into with AzCopy, which I eventually resolved by writing a batch file and escaping a...
2020-01-08
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This week all I want to say is Happy New Year, and may 2020 be the start of a successful decade for you. Live, love, learn. Remember to take...
2020-01-01
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Long time readers will know I’m a big fan of Temporal Tables since their introduction in SQL Server 2016. Thanks to my friend Erik Darling (blog | Twitter), I...
2019-12-25
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On Twitter recently, I asked: Does anyone I know use the COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS features in T-SQL? To those who replied in the affirmative, I asked: What made you...
2019-12-18
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Here’s a list of some technical terms, acronyms, and abbreviations you may have heard, and what they mean. Some of the definitions are taken from Wikipedia. This list is...
2019-12-11
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Buckle up, database wranglers! Nowadays, SQL DBAs hold the keys to a company's most...
By DataOnWheels
Picture this, your data ingestion team has created a table that has the sales...
By Brian Kelley
I did a post last month titled RTO and RPO are myths unless you've...
I have the user Managed identity <myusermanagedidentity> , granted it carte blanche alter...
First off, my apologies for what could potentially be a bad title! I am...
I have marked a few transactions in my code. How can I find out which marks were stored in a transaction log?
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