T-SQL Tuesday #65 – Overcoming Variable Limitations in SQLCmd Mode
It’s time again for that T-SQL blog party T-SQL Tuesday, and this month’s host is Mike Donnelly (blog|@SQLMD). If you...
2015-04-14
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Blog Posts
Very useful SET XACT_ABORT TIP#94
SET XACT_ABORT is one of the hidden gem we can say. It is helpful in many ways.
Let me explain by...
2015-04-14 (first published: 2015-04-04)
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A Full Day of Power BI with Me
Join me for a full day of Power BI in Baton Rouge, LA and Downers Grove, IL, where I will teach...
2015-04-13
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Best of PASS Summit 2014
I am very proud to announce that one of my PASS Summit 2014 sessions was selected as one of the Top 10...
2015-04-13 (first published: 2015-04-03)
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Best of PASS Summit 2014: Building Bullet-Resistant SSIS Packages
This week, PASS announced the Best of PASS Summit 2014, a collection of the 10 highest-rated sessions from last fall’s...
2015-04-13 (first published: 2015-04-04)
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Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2 – Monitoring
AlwaysOn Availability Groups have made a big splash in the SQL world and are quickly becoming the HA and DR technology of choice for many SQL Server environments. Crucial...
2015-04-13
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Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2 – Monitoring
AlwaysOn Availability Groups have made a big splash in the SQL world and are quickly becoming the HA and DR...
2015-04-13
1,134 reads
How to restore Master database – SQL Server System Database?
Steps to restore SQL Server Master Database :- 1) Stop SQL Server Services 2) Add [-m] startup parameter in SQL Services from configuration manager Parameter [-m] Starts SQL Server...
2015-04-13
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How to Test Existing T-SQL Code Before Changing the Compatibility Level
You can easily determine whether existing stored procedures, UDFs and views can work in a higher (or lower, if you wish) compatibility...
2015-04-13
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In-Memory OLTP: Part 2 – Indexes
Following on from In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction where we created a database capable of hosting memory optimised tables, I’d...
2015-04-13
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Blogs
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....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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