Daily Coping 14 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...
2022-03-14
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Blog Posts
Execution Plan Properties
I’ve watched several people recently go straight to XML when reading execution plans because they didn’t know about the execution plan properties in the first operator. Now, don’t get...
2022-03-14
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Expert Series Webinar – Optimizing SQL Server Data Protection
I’m thrilled to be presenting the second part of a four-part webinar series with ActualTech Media called “Optimizing SQL Server on VMware Data Protection and Disaster Recovery” this Friday,...
2022-03-14
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I’m writing a SQL Server security presentation and I need your help.
I’m working on a new presentation titled Watch Ken solve security headaches in SQL Server. In this presentation I’m going ... Continue reading
2022-03-14 (first published: 2022-02-24)
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Unable to Validate Source Query in Tabular Editor
I recently encountered the error, “Unable to validate source query” when trying to refresh the metadata for the tables in my tabular model using Tabular Editor. I immediately googled...
2022-03-14 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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Execute SQL Scripts on Snowflake using Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory has a new activity introduced this week (around the 10th of March 2022 for you future readers): the Script activity! This is not to be confused...
2022-03-13
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Azure Redundancy for Storage
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...
2022-03-11 (first published: 2022-02-23)
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Daily Coping 11 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...
2022-03-11
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How to find tables with 0 records using space
This is a follow up post to the previous one about tables with no records using data space, with the idea coming from twitter of all places. Sometimes on...
2022-03-11
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Recipe 3: Merging and manipulating events
Welcome to the third recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-11 (first published: 2022-02-24)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
Forums
Rethinking How We Approach Assignment Help
Assignments aren’t just tasks to submit—they’re opportunities to build understanding, discipline, and problem-solving skills....
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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