No, Binary Collations are not Case-Sensitive
Quite often people will use, or will recommend using, a binary Collation (one ending in “_BIN” or “_BIN2“) when wanting...
2017-07-13
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Blog Posts
The Three A’s: Auditing
Authentication and Authorization, the first two of the three A’s of security, control who gets access to what. However, at...
2017-07-13 (first published: 2017-06-28)
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Be Wary of Date Formatting in T-SQL
Today’s public service announcement is a reminder to be wary of date formatting in SQL Server. On a recent mailing...
2017-07-12
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I’m Speaking! Evansville Technology Group
SQL Server user group is a backbone of the SQL Server community. I currently help run the Louisville SQL Server...
2017-07-12
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I’m Speaking! Evansville Technology Group
SQL Server user group is a backbone of the SQL Server community. I currently help run the Louisville SQL Server...
2017-07-12
457 reads
LocalDB DSC Script
Hello!
So, there are many different product SKUs of SQL Server available, and generally when developing it’s probably best to use...
2017-07-12
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Row-count Estimates when there are no Statistics
I was discussing Cardinality Estimation with a colleague recently and the question came up, what cardinality does SQL Server use...
2017-07-12 (first published: 2017-06-28)
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SSRS Report Deployment Made Easy – 700 times Faster
Back in October 2016, Microsoft started a new GitHub repository – ReportingServicesTools – an open source PowerShell module to manage SQL Server...
2017-07-12
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Update SSMS With PS1
With how many updates are coming out I threw together a script to parse the latest version from the webpage,...
2017-07-12 (first published: 2017-07-03)
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Don’t Forget the Keys
I was recently given the nod to upgrade my monitoring server from SQL Server 2012 (SP 3) to SQL Server...
2017-07-11 (first published: 2017-06-30)
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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