Recently a customer was asking for a way to alert on job steps that failed, but the job succeeded. They really wanted a custom metric for SQL Monitor, which I submitted, but this post looks at the query in general, trying to determine if a job step failed. Note: Let me start by noting that […]
2021-08-30
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This guide helps you get started on troubleshooting some of the common issues in AlwaysOn Availability Groups and monitoring AlwaysOn Availability Groups. It is intended to provide original content as well as a landing page of useful information that is already published elsewhere.
2021-08-25
A frustrating time importing CSV files leads Steve to test the different options.
2021-07-14
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This Data Saturday Event is being jointly developed by the Albuquerque Data Platform Users Group, Arizona Data Platform Users Group, and the Santa Fe Data Platform Users Groups. This event will include sessions on many Microsoft Data Platform related topics. Join us on May 15, 2021.
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2021-04-30 (first published: 2021-04-26)
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A short piece looking at how you might convert binary numbers into hexadecimal in T-SQL.
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2021-03-23
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In this article, we examine the support for non-SQL languages in Azure Data Studio, primarily PoSh and Python.
2021-03-16
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