Daily Coping 1 Apr 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-04-01
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Blog Posts
Power Automate – Returning the Last Day of the Month
Have you ever needed to set a property or field to the last day of the month? This is a common business problem that can
2022-04-01 (first published: 2022-03-25)
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Starting LocalDB–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Lots of people have never worked with LocalDB,...
2022-04-01 (first published: 2022-03-28)
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Daily Coping 31 Mar 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – Big Data Analytics with Azure Data Explorer
This blog pos illustrates how Azure Data Explorer and Azure Synapse Analytics complement each other for near real-time analytics and modern data warehousing use cases. This solution is already...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – create a database in our ADX cluster
In the previous blog post we created an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. In this blog post we will create a database that we will ingest data into, as...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – create an Azure Data Explorer cluster
I have written a lot about the magic of KQL and the brilliance of Azure Data Explorer. Now we should create a cluster of our own that hosts Azure...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – creating KQL queries
Basically when we are writing KQL we are asking the following questions: Does it exist? Where does it exist? Why does it exist? What shall we do with the...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – KQL usage with Advanced Hunting (this is huge)
This blog post is about another use of KQL that will definitely help your organisation and make you very popular. First of all check out this video here which...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – Security Monitoring with Azure Data Explorer
This blog post demonstrates a hybrid end-to-end monitoring solution integrated with Microsoft Sentinel and Azure Monitor for ingesting streamed and batched logs from diverse sources, on-premises, or any cloud,...
2022-03-31
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Generating Migration Script Names
By Steve Jones
AI is a big deal in 2026, and at Redgate, we’re experimenting with how...
The Book of Redgate: Get the right stuff done
By Steve Jones
Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
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The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?