For years I’ve assumed I knew the string defaults, but I realized that’s not right. This post looks at what I learned. Another post for me that is simple...
2024-02-26 (first published: 2024-02-14)
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I have been involved in countless database migrations. Most of the time I have access to the existing source servers and future destination servers. In cases where you have...
2024-02-26 (first published: 2024-02-15)
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It’s #TSQL2sday time! This month’s invitation has been sent out by Brent Ozar and he asks us to describe the most recent issue – or the last ticket –...
2024-02-23 (first published: 2024-02-13)
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proluctance – n. the paradoxical urge to avoid doing something you’ve been looking forward to – opening a decisive letter, meeting up with a friend who’s finally back in...
2024-02-23
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Last week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) put out an emergency directive which ordered federal agencies to pull Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure installations from...
2024-02-23 (first published: 2024-02-05)
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We have numerous Azure Analysis Services servers running in the cloud and needed a way to have near-real time monitoring of the queries being run. This KQL query will...
2024-02-21 (first published: 2024-02-06)
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I was working with a customer that was doing some error handling in procs and helped them do some error tracking. As we were working through things, I realized...
2024-02-21 (first published: 2024-02-07)
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As a follow up to my blog Common Data Mesh exceptions, I wanted to discuss various types of data mesh topologies I am seeing being built. I put them...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-01-30)
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Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 introduced a new security feature for SQL Server databases called Always Encrypted. Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data,...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-02-04)
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What to do? At some point we will want to do something with delta lake and so I wanted to explore the options. Before we do...
2024-02-17
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By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
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ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers