Export data from Cosmos DB to SQL Server
Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s latest NoSQL database offering low latency, high scalability and geo-distribution to any Azure region. Read Microsoft...
2018-04-29
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Blog Posts
Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Cosmos DB started as an internal project – “Project Florence” – at Microsoft in 2010. It is a...
2018-04-29
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SQL Server Minimum Memory Setting
There is almost never a reason to set this setting unless you’re running other apps on the same server as...
2018-04-29
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SQL Server Advanced Aggregations Part 2 ROLLUP and CUBE
This post is part 2 of a 3 part series…
Part 1 Grouping SetsPart 2 ROLLUP and CUBEPart 3 GROUPING and...
2018-04-28
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Backup VisualSVN using PowerShell
Quick and easy backup for VisualSVN. Wraps the svnadmin.exe and performs a hotcopy of all repositories in the $source_path, dumping them to the $backup_path [crayon-5c98d5a77e81c224584330/]
2018-04-27
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How to get alerted anytime SQL Service is restarted?
You may and should have monitoring in place to monitor state of your servers, services, jobs, critical and not critical...
2018-04-27
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Python Jupyter Notebooks in Azure
There’s a new feature in Azure, and I stumbled on it when someone posted a link on Twitter. Apologies, I...
2018-04-27 (first published: 2018-04-18)
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Top 5 Features of SysTools SQL LDF Recovery Software - Review
An SQL Server Expert Thoughts : I would like to recommend my readers to use SysTools SQL LDF recovery software for viewing transaction log file of SQL Server 2016,...
2018-04-27
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Top 5 Features of SysTools SQL LDF Recovery Software - Review
An SQL Server Expert Thoughts : I would like to recommend my readers to use SysTools SQL LDF recovery software for...
2018-04-27
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Why Don't I have a Preferred Replica?
The client reported that the log file on their main database was growing unusually large, and when they checked the...
2018-04-27 (first published: 2018-04-18)
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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