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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There's an issue with some characters in T-SQL when validating numeric values out of raw varchar fields, and it can...
2013-12-17 (first published: 2013-12-12)
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I'm happy to announce a big slate of upcoming events for Baton Rouge User Groups and especially the SQL Server...
2013-12-03
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By Brian Kelley
In information security (INFOSEC), there several foundational concepts and principles. One of the ones...
By Steve Jones
the standard blues– n. the dispiriting awareness that the twists and turns of your...
By Chris Yates
A brief introduction to the tool and its advantages for database migrations DevOps is...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item One more reason to use...
I'm tracing activity on one database and would like to include the client_app_name in...
select Custno, Addr1, City, Res_Phone, Bus_Phone, Fax_Phone, Marine_Phone, Pager_Phone, Other_Phone, email1, email2 from customer...
I want to mark a transaction in the log as a recovery point. How do I do this in my code if I use the transaction, myTran?
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