Database Code Reviews
I’ll be honest, ever since I did a SQL Homework about doing code reviews I’ve wanted to do a blog ... Continue reading
2022-03-10
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Blog Posts
Snowflake Integration to Azure AD
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft Azure’s identity and access management providing authentication and authorization mechanism for internal and external applications in Azure ecosystem. With AD(more...)
The post Snowflake Integration to...
2022-03-10
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Check if File Exists Before Deploying SQL Script to Azure SQL Managed Instance in Azure Release Pipelines
I have been in Azure DevOps pipelines a lot recently, helping clients set up automated releases. Many of my clients are not in a place where automated build and...
2022-03-09 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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Daily Coping 9 Feb 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...
2022-03-09
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ETL v ELT
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-03-09
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Help, not all of my column is displaying in the output of the query!
I’ll be honest, I don’t remember if I’ve written about this before but I couldn’t find it, so here we ... Continue reading
2022-03-09 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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How do I merge a small part of a Git repo into another repo?
At my new day job, one of the things we want to do is migrate a portion of a really large Git repository (over 20GB) which I’ll call LargeRepo,...
2022-03-09
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An increased opportunity. Remote user groups. : T-SQL Tuesday #148
Rie Merritt (blog|twitter) is our host this month for T-SQL Tuesday! She’d like us to give advice on running a ... Continue reading
2022-03-08
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An increased opportunity. Remote user groups. : T-SQL Tuesday #148
Rie Merritt (blog|twitter) is our host this month for T-SQL Tuesday! She’d like us to give advice on running a ... Continue reading
2022-03-08
5 reads
Daily Coping 8 Feb 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...
2022-03-08
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers