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By Daniel Janik
Microsoft's unified analytics platform, Fabric, simplifies integration across various tools in Azure by offering...
By Brian Kelley
I always try and ensure that I post my slides to my talks here...
By Steve Jones
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
Hi, Does anyone know how to handle a raw data file where some rows...
Hi, On my SQL 2022 (16.0.4195.2) test environment, I tried to enable Force Strict...
Hi everyone I have a bunch of CSV files that I need to import...
I have DDL trigger code that I'm working on in SQL Server 2022, but I am concerned that we might end up with multiple triggers firing and the response to the user is delayed. If I want to check how many triggers have fired, or are nested, how can I do this in my code?
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