Picking a Conference Venue
I was reading about the American Association of Woodturners annual symposium that will be held in Tampa this year (and...
2013-03-05
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Blog Posts
Remove Local Administrators SSAS Admin Access
Recently while changing some production security around on a new server I needed to modify the SQL Server Analysis Services...
2013-03-05
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SQL Server 2012 on Microsoft Surface Pro
I received my long-awaited Microsoft Surface Pro 128GB yesterday! The first thing I did was to promptly install SQL Server...
2013-03-05
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Standardize Table Aliases
What’s wrong with the following code?
SELECT
a.[BusinessEntityID]
, b.[FirstName]
, b.[LastName]
FROM [HumanResources].[Employee] a
INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] b
ON b.[BusinessEntityID] = a.[BusinessEntityID]Nothing – except for my...
2013-03-05
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Standardize Table Aliases
What's wrong with the following code?
tsqlLine number Off | Hide | Select allSELECT a.[BusinessEntityID] , b.[FirstName] , b.[LastName]FROM[HumanResources].[Employee] a INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] b ON...
2013-03-05
786 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 22 (Restores)
Welcome to Day 22 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-03-04 (first published: 2013-02-22)
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Come Learn at SQL Intersection, Get a Surface Tablet
This spring I’m speaking at the SQL Intersection conference. It’s a new conference, managed by SQLskills founders Kimberly Tripp and...
2013-03-04
1,191 reads
Introduction to the SQL BCP Utility
SQL Server BCP is a command line utility that bulk copies data between instances of SQL Server and data files. ...
2013-03-04
23,490 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #22
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-03-04
596 reads
Making sure your Triggers fire when they should
As some of you may be aware, triggers are not my favourite thing in the world but like most things,...
2013-03-04
1,071 reads
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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