Great to see you at SQLSaturday Houston 2017
Great to see all of you at #SQLSatHouston today, an awesome event put on by a great crew of volunteers....
2017-06-17
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Blog Posts
Friday Reading 2017-06-16
Been looking forward to this weekend for a while now as it’s SQLSaturday Dublin tomorrow. I did a lightening talk...
2017-06-16
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If Clippy found his way to SSMS
Recently my wife and I were comparing Cortana with Siri. It’s sometimes fun to compare virtual assistants to see how...
2017-06-16 (first published: 2017-06-01)
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Install SQL Server Agent on Ubuntu (Linux)
With the release of SQL Server vNext CTP 1.4, the SQL Server Agent support is included. It enables DBAs to...
2017-06-16
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SQL Crossword
I thought I’d do another crossword. Enjoy! If you need any help with it feel free to let me know...
2017-06-16 (first published: 2017-05-31)
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Database Fundamentals
One of my favorite things about being a technologist is constantly learning new things, but, this can lead us to...
2017-06-15 (first published: 2017-05-31)
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Microsoft Data Insights Summit Day 2 Recap: Timeline Storyteller, Future of Power BI Desktop, and Freakonomics
The theme of day 2 of the Microsoft Data Insights Summit was sessions, sessions, sessions! There were a ton of...
2017-06-15
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Renaming MDF/LDF Files–SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-06-15
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Restore a BACPAC–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-06-15 (first published: 2017-06-01)
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How to write a DELETE query
My First DELETE Statement Here are the links to the previous posts in this series: My First SELECT Statement My...
2017-06-14
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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....
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The New World Of AI Robots
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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...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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