The Hidden Impact of Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL
A problem with the configuration of Microsoft Defender caused all activity on the server to get delayed.
2023-07-28
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Team xTEN
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Better SQL Server Agent Job Failure Monitoring
SQL Server Agent has a built-in alerting process for when jobs fail, but the information it provides isn’t very useful. You’re only told which job, what time, who ran it, and which step failed. If you want to see why it failed, you have to review the job history manually. On a busy system with […]
2020-10-29
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Connecting to SQL Server with MuleSoft AnyPoint 3.9
I usually write about SQL Server, but I thought I'd share my experience of using SQL Server from MuleESB. If you haven't used Mule before, it's an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus), which also has a paid-for Enterprise version. I've been using it since 2015 and have been impressed with how quickly we can create […]
2020-10-23
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Question of the Day
STRING_AGG's behavior
Executing the following script (Sql Server 2022), you get the table t0 with 10 rows:
CREATE TABLE t0
( id INT PRIMARY KEY
, field1 VARCHAR(1000)
, field2 VARCHAR(MAX));
INSERT INTO t0
SELECT
gs.value
, REPLICATE ('X', 1000)
, REPLICATE ('Y', 1000)
FROM generate_series(1, 10, 1) gs;
GOWhat happens if you execute the following statements?
select STRING_AGG(field1, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;
select STRING_AGG(field2, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;