The Whirlwind That Is October – Part 1
October has been such a whirlwind of PASS activity for me. Two SQL Saturdays and the PASS Summit. This post...
2015-10-16
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Blog Posts
“That little green arrow.” or “My code used to work but now I’m getting a debug error.”
If you’ve worked with SSMS for any length of time this will look awfully familiar:
SSMS 2008R2
SSMS 2012 +
This little green...
2015-10-15
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Better Practices for Reading Event_file Targets
I have demonstrated over the past couple of articles the basics involved with reading the
event_file target along with a more...
2015-10-15
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Better Practices for Reading Event_file Targets
In this article, I am going to address some better practices for Reading Event_file targets attached to an XEvent Session.
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How to: File Target use in Extended Events December...
2015-10-15
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Copying data from Azure Blob Storage
In a previous blog I talked about copying on-prem data to Azure Blob Storage (Getting data into Azure Blob Storage). ...
2015-10-15
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Finding the error from a failed job.
This is a fairly simple one once you’ve seen it, but then so are lots of things :). Let’s say you...
2015-10-15 (first published: 2015-10-07)
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My PASS Summit 2015
Its just a bit over a week until PASS Summit 2015 will start. If you are a Microsoft Data Platform...
2015-10-15
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Presentation Design – Before and After
Recently I gave a session on the SQL Server Days about the new features for business intelligence in SQL Server...
2015-10-15
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SQL server Encryption – Transact SQL Functions.
In the previous blogs we came across various encrypt functions like ENCRYPTBYKEY(),ENCRYPTBYASYMKEY(),ENCRYPTBYCERT().We also saw the corresponding decrypt functions likeDECRYPTBYKEY(),DECRYPTBYCERT(),DECRYPTBYASYMKEY(),DECRYPTBYCERT(),We shall...
2015-10-15
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SQL Source Control and Git–Getting Started
It seems as though Git is taking the world by storm as the Version Control System (VCS) of choice. TFS...
2015-10-15 (first published: 2015-10-05)
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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