A Guide for Decrypting SQL Server Database Objects
Overview
The SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 provide a new feature for encrypting data to protect it from...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-16)
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Blog Posts
Automating Database Deployment: Part 4 Making Changes Using RoundhousE to Migrate the Database
With the Automating Database Deployment: Part 3 Running RoundhousE post we walked through running a RoundhousE deployment for the first time to create the database and several database objects. Script naming...
2018-02-28
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Blocking Locks and Deadlocks
Situation Your query is waiting for another query and the other query is doing nothing. Blocking Locks A blocking lock...
2018-02-28
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Blocking Locks and Deadlocks
Situation Your query is waiting for another query and the other query is doing nothing. Blocking Locks A blocking lock...
2018-02-28
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Dates and Times in SQL Server: SMALLDATETIME
Last week I spoke about a world wary data type for storing dates and times in a single column, with...
2018-02-28
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Doing DevOPs for your Database? You need to start here…
I’ve been doing that thing called DevOPs for about 17 years – you know – before it had a name…
In fact it...
2018-02-28
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New Built-in Function STRING_AGG() – SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2017 introduces a set of useful functions like STRING_AGG(), STRING_SPLIT(), TRIM()… and many more. In this tip, I am...
2018-02-28
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Offline installation of SQL Server 2017 on Linux
SQL Server is now compatible with different Linux distributions, and there is a lot of excitement about it.How ever one...
2018-02-28
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PASS Summit 2018 – Call for Speakers
It is that time again. PASS has opened the Call for Speakers. I have submitted for the past 10 years,...
2018-02-28
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Safely and Easily Use High-Level Permissions Without Granting Them to Anyone: Server-level
Part of having good security is giving users the fewest / least permissions possible in order to execute the code. However,...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-15)
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Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
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Slow - Linked server query
Hi I have this slow query that is pulling data from a linked server....
Too Many Choices
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers