Day 23 Replication
Replication means making copy of the objects and moving transaction from primary server to secondary/standby/Slave server. There are two type...
2018-05-23
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Blog Posts
How to pass data between procedures using temp tables.
In this post I will show how in some cases we can split a long procedure to a small and...
2018-05-23
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Jobs in PoSh to Create a Load
I saw this from Argenis Fernandez, and thought it was wonderful.
1..128 | % { start-job -name ‘job name’ -scriptblock { & sqlcmd -S instanceName -U...
2018-05-23
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PoshSSDTBuildDeploy Updated - Now With Pester Tests
Hello!
Some weeks ago I got the tests working on the CI build for PoshSSDTBuildDeploy. The tests were a bit of a mish mash, however they sort of did the...
2018-05-23
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Pushing SQL Server images to the Azure Container Registry
The Azure Container Registry is an online repository for storing Docker images (think the Docker Hub).
What’s cool about this is...
2018-05-23 (first published: 2018-05-09)
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SSAS Tabular – Fact Table Key Columns Datatype Impact
Intro
I’m working on a solution where warehouse uses string codes as the keys for dimensions. Therefore the fact table is...
2018-05-23
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The public role
A common misunderstanding is that the CONNECT permission lets you do more than just connect to a database. It doesn’t....
2018-05-23
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Thoughts on Query Performance with TDE enabled
Microsoft state that enabling TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) usually has a performance overhead of 2-4%. That doesn’t sound like very...
2018-05-23
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Virtual Log Files: 200 or 1000?
Last week I had the privilege of reviewing possibly the best SQL Server production environment I’ve seen in Canada. During...
2018-05-23
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Azure PowerShell – List Data Center Locations
Occasionally I will come across the need to use PowerShell for my day to day activities. One such need came up this week when I was preparing to do...
2018-05-22
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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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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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