How to Create a Beautiful and Functional Site for Your WordPress Meetup Group
Taking advantage of our free site offer for your WordPress community? Here are some new templates you can use.
2024-07-11
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Blog Posts
Create a copy of an Azure SQL DB
Where I work, we will be migrating data from one set of databases into another. I will be making a copy of the destination databases to allow us to...
2024-07-10 (first published: 2024-06-25)
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Exploring Windows Function Execution Plans
There are quite a few different ways that you’re likely to see windows functions evidence themselves within your execution plan. Let’s take a look at one example. Windows Function...
2024-07-10 (first published: 2024-06-24)
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2024-07-09
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Deleting Old Local Git Branches–#SQLNewBlogger
I had a lot of local branches for a repo (actually a few repos). I know these are old and not used anymore, so how do I delete them?...
2024-07-08
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System Views in Microsoft Fabric – Query references an object that is not supported in distributed processing mode
I have a metadata-driven ELT framework that heavily relies on dynamic SQL to generate SQL statements that load data from views into a respective fact or dimension. Such a...
2024-07-08 (first published: 2024-06-08)
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Use Your Voice
If you want more of a career and less of a job, one thing you will have to do is learn to use your voice. I mean this on...
2024-07-08
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What to Know about Power BI Theme Colors
Power BI reports have a theme that specifies the default colors, fonts, and visual styles. In Power BI Desktop, you can choose to use a built-in theme, start with...
2024-07-08 (first published: 2024-06-21)
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A New Word: Symptomania
symptomania – n. the fantasy that there’s some elaborate diagnosis out there that neatly captures the kind of person you are, tying together your many flaws and contradictions into...
2024-07-05
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How do you restore a SQL Server 2000 database in the year 2024?
A discussion on LinkedIn led to this hypothetical “real world” question: Problem statement: I have a SQL Server 2000 database backup that I need to restore to a supported...
2024-07-05 (first published: 2024-06-20)
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Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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