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
T-SQL Tuesday #191: Invitation–Your Favorite String Parsing
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It’s that time of the month, and I’m late. My apologies. I had a...
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
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