Overview of SQL Server Encryption Features
SQL Server has had the native ability to encrypt data since SQL Server 2005. This included functionality that could be used to encrypt individual items and columns of data...
2022-12-12
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Blog Posts
Power BI Embedded: Using Row-Level Security for Multilingual Reports
Making multilingual reports in Power BI requires a lot of different elements. Translations can be added to PBIX files to translate column names, visual titles, etc. but these translations...
2022-12-12 (first published: 2022-11-30)
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Daily Coping 9 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to find out something new about someone you care about. I took the time to do this at the recent PASS Summit. During events like...
2022-12-09
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Hot Adding CPU to SQL Server
Last Updated on January 24, 2023 by John Morehouse © 2022 – 2023, John Morehouse. All rights reserved.
The post Hot Adding CPU to SQL Server first appeared on John...
2022-12-09
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Hyperconverged storage tuning tip for SQL Server
We all (should) know that running SQL Server in hyperconverged virtual environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, has some interesting trade-offs. The biggest is write latency from the...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-25)
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Read data from Azure Synapse Serverless SQL Pools with Azure Data Factory
We have some data we can query using the serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics. For this blog post, I’m querying data that is stored in Azure Cosmos...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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What Do I Do to Relax?
I’ve republished an editorial today from another author, called What do you do to relax after work? I’m thinking about that a few weeks ahead, because I needed to...
2022-12-09
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#PowershellBasics: Warnings and how to hide them.
One of my favorite parts of having a new job is that I learn a ton. (No really, my brain ... Continue reading
2022-12-08
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Daily Coping 8 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to be curious. Learn about a new topic or an inspiring idea. My daughter pointed a new podcast out to me: What’s Her Name? This...
2022-12-08
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Creating a Unity Catalog in Azure Databricks
Unity Catalog in Databricks provides a single place to create and manage data access policies that apply across all workspaces and users in an organization. It also provides a...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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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('tim', 'tom')
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