PASS – Connect, Share and Learn
The Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) has a slogan for what they do – CONNECT, SHARE and LEARN. So, what...
2014-12-18
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tricks – Trigger Your Memory
I was scanning Twitter the other day and saw a note from someone that they had written a query using...
2014-12-18 (first published: 2014-12-11)
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2014 Tribal Awards Are Open
Yesterday morning I opened my email and was very pleased to find that I have been nominated for the 2014 Tribal...
2014-12-17
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU3 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU3),...
2014-12-17
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Building Your First Windows Azure Machine
Recently, I had the pleasure of writing another article that was included the Notes From the Field series that is hosted...
2014-12-17
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Exam Prep 70-463: SSIS Connection Managers
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2014-12-17 (first published: 2014-12-11)
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SQL Konferenz
I’ve spoken at lots of events, but all in the US and the UK. Next year I get my first...
2014-12-17
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SQLSaturday Portugal 2015 – Above & Beyond
At the same day, 4 years ago me & my team were already in the process of organising the very first...
2014-12-17
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Azure Columnstore, part 2 – Snapshot Isolation & Batch Mode DOP
Welcome to the 2nd blog post in the Azure Columnstore series, as previously mentioned in the Azure Columnstore, part 1...
2014-12-16
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Load Balanced IIS Machines
I noticed a contest this week while working on the Database Weekly newsletter. It’s the Cloud Hero contest, with the...
2014-12-16
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Blogs
Distance Metrics for Semantic Similarity Searches in SQL Server 2025
Next up in my series talking about The Burrito Bot is diving into the...
The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
By DataOnWheels
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I...
PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script
By gbargsley
This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four...
Forums
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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QUOTENAME Behavior
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Running script without having permission to Function
Good Morning. I have a T-SQL Script which has been developed to execute a...
Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers