One SSMS Trick That Will Make You a Faster Query Builder
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Here's the scenario: you copy and paste some code into a query you are building. A few minutes later you need that same snippet...
2017-07-25
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Management Studio: Video Tutorial
SQL Server Management Studio is the all in one tool for developers and DBAs alike to work with SQL Server....
2017-07-25
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SSoL: Where are my data and log files?
I don’t think most of us need to know Linux, but if you end up managing a system, it’s good...
2017-07-25
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Streaming ETL: SQL Change Data Capture (CDC) to Azure Event Hub
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
I had a recent requirement to capture and streamreal-time data changes on several SQL database...
2017-07-25 (first published: 2017-07-11)
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Announcing PSDay.UK – Whats a PSDay?
On Thursday evening I attended the joint London WinOps and PowerShell User Group. It was an excellent evening with two...
2017-07-24
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Calculating Travel Distance/Time in Power BI using Bing Map API
[2017-July-24] Map visualization in Power BI has drawn many data professionals into a field of ?reating visual data stories with...
2017-07-24
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Database Fundamentals #6: Create a Table with the SSMS GUI
The whole idea behind databases is to store information, data, in order to look at it later. The place where...
2017-07-24
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Default SQL Agent Reports – Top Jobs
Looking at what a job has been doing is important. Particularly if something is going wrong. Now there are several...
2017-07-24
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FizzBuzz–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-07-24
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Geek Sync on Wednesday: Taking Control of Your Organization’s SQL Server Sprawl
This Wednesday, July 26th, at 12 PM EDT, I’ll be giving a presentation through Idera’s Geek Sync series. You will...
2017-07-24
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Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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