Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #45
It’s Monday, it’s time for weekly round-up #45. Technically, this should be #46, but since I went on vacation, I...
2013-08-19
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Blog Posts
Need Recommendations on Being a Better Listener
This past weekend I’ve been reading The Zen of Listening by Rebecca Shafir, part of my ongoing efforts to be...
2013-08-19
683 reads
Restoring a TDE Database on a New Instance
You’ve enabled Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on one of your databases, and the server has failed. How do you get...
2013-08-19
1,079 reads
sp_SrvPermissions
Last week I posted my stored procedure for database permissions, sp_DBPermissions. A couple of days later I was demonstrating it...
2013-08-19
1,411 reads
SQLCMD – Database Backup and Restore – Automation – Quickest and Simplest method
In today’s world we rely more on third party tools to do a Backup and Restore of databases. Most of...
2013-08-19
4,440 reads
Using a system function as a computed column within a table-value function….
Wouldn’t it be nice if SQL Server allowed this functionality? for instance if did the below:-
I get the above error....
2013-08-19
1,044 reads
Windows Failover Cluster Monitor
Windows Failover Clusters are fantastic, they provide High Availability for mission critical SQL Server instances and make my life as...
2013-08-19 (first published: 2013-08-09)
2,817 reads
Introducing Python in Hadoop World
This blog is not for pure Python lover. In this article I will describe usefulness of Python in Big Data and Hadoop environment. To discover more about Python please...
2013-08-18
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Introducing Python in Hadoop World
This blog is not for pure Python lover. In this article I will describe usefulness of Python in Big Data...
2013-08-18
588 reads
Reblog: August 9 to August 15
This reblog post should have come out last Friday, but I was on vacation and I didn’t want any new...
2013-08-18
451 reads
Blogs
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,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Microsoft Security Changes and SQL...
Expanding into Print
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Expanding into Print
Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
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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