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
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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
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...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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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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