Querying SQL and Windows Version Info with T-SQL
Just a quick one today - I see questions sometimes about polling Windows information from inside SQL Server itself. There are...
2017-04-10 (first published: 2017-03-24)
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Blog Posts
Reviewing the 2016 PASS Audited Financials
Notes on items I found interesting in the financial statement, recommend you download and read the entire document.
Global Alliance Partner...
2017-04-10
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SQL Server Free eBooks, Softwares, Tutorials and Websites
When we start working as developer or learning, we often
face this issue. Where is the best tutorials, books and other...
2017-04-10
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Step by Step Configuring a Dedicated Network for Availability Group
One of my clients came up with the requirement to isolate the replication traffic from the public network. The advantage of using a separate network for replication is reduced...
2017-04-10
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Step by Step Configuring a Dedicated Network for Availability Group
One of my clients came up with the requirement to isolate the replication traffic from the public network. The advantage...
2017-04-10
887 reads
Updated SQL Server on VMware Best Practices Guide
I am proud to announce that we contributed to the latest revision of the Microsoft SQL Server on VMware best practices...
2017-04-10 (first published: 2017-03-23)
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Why SQLSaturday? A SQLSat Career Case Study
We all know that SQLSaturday events are good for career networking, professional development, and technical education. Sometimes the perfect story...
2017-04-10
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Working with Data in Always Encrypted
In this post we’re going to create some encrypted columns in a table in a test database and look at some of the practicalities and limitations of working with...
2017-04-10
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New Pluralsight Course – LFCE: Network and Host Security
My new course “LFCE: Network and Host Security” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check...
2017-04-09
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New Pluralsight Course – LFCE: Network and Host Security
My new course “LFCE: Network and Host Security” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right...
2017-04-09
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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?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers