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Bradley Ball is a Sr. Azure FastTrack Customer Engineer for Microsoft, and former Data Platform MVP. During his IT career Bradley has spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army, The Executive Office of the President of the United States for the Obama Administration, and is the former Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, now 3Cloud. He has presented at SQL Saturdays, SSUG's, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits, SQL Live 360, and the PASS Summit. Bradley co-hosts the Tales From The Field YouTube show https://aka.ms/TftF/youtube , he can also be found blogging on https://www.SQLBalls.com

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SQL Data Pipelines: The Ultimate Guide to Streamlining Your Data Flow

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Using SQL Compare in Read-Only Databases

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Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...

T-SQL Tuesday #179 Roundup: The Data Detective Toolkit

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Earlier this month, I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday invitation in which I asked,...

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Date Type ETL Question

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I'm not sure that I'm posting this in the right section, so please mods...

Possible oddity in msdb.dbo.backupset

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Hi all   I've written a script to keep track of how long backups...

Operand data type varchar is invalid for sum operator

By yrstruly

I have this view [dbo].[Asset Metrics - Client(Rama -Client-Test)], which makes use of multiple...

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Question of the Day

Data Migration Assistant Sources

In the current (Sep 2024) Data Migration Assistant, what are the possible sources for on-premises SQL Server instances?

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