Acadiana SQL Server User Group - Introduction to SQL Server Security Principals and Permissions
Great crowd last night and a great job by organizers Glenda Gable and Jill Joubert for the very first meeting...
2014-02-26
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Will Assaf
February '14 Acadiana SQL Server User Group
I am honored to be the very first presenter of the new PASS chapter in Lafayette, Louisiana this Tuesday, presenting...
2014-02-23
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February '14 Data Architecture Virtual Chapter Meeting
I will be speaking and whiteboarding for Data Architecture Virtual Chapter meeting on February 27, 2014 on the fitting topic...
2014-02-23
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Actual Emails: More Grief for GUIDs
Wrote this email exchange with some developer colleagues about to embark on performance tuning.
Subject: bag o' tricks from DMV talk
From: A. Developer
Hey...
2014-02-12 (first published: 2014-02-05)
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It May Be Necessary Re-enable Service Broker After Baremetal Restore
After the restore of a database, or perhaps a bare-metal restore of a Windows server running SQL Server, unique IDs...
2014-01-30
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Start/Stop Group of Azure VM's
If you've already configured your local machine's PowerShell environment to interact with your Azure subscription (see here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/install-configure-powershell/), then you can...
2014-01-30 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Easy Backup History Review Script
I often use these scripts to check on the backups of all databases in an unfamiliar SQL Server instance, regardless...
2014-01-22
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Not Dead Yet - Text and NText in SQL 2014
I was recently approached by a client who was running SQL Server 2008 with some databases in SQL 2000 compatibility...
2014-01-15
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Don't Hitch Your Wagon To MS Access
I know this might seem like an odd topic on a SQL Server blog, but it's a common and critical...
2014-01-07
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Case-Sensitive Updates in a Case-Insensitive World
Assuming you're in a case-insensitive ("CI" in the collation name) column, this UPDATE statement:
UPDATE tablefoo
set foo = 'Z'
where foo = 'z'
will just...
2013-12-20 (first published: 2013-12-16)
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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