A Little Current Date Arithmetic in Powershell–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I saw a fun post on Twitter recently...
2022-01-12
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 12 Jan 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...
2022-01-12
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Identifying Recompile Causes
Strictly speaking, a recompile isn’t really a performance tuning problem. In fact, a lot of time, recompiles are desired because they reflect changes in statistics which are likely to...
2022-01-12 (first published: 2022-01-03)
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Purging a SQL Server Express Database
This is not another IRL post, but rather is more of “Help, my SQL Express database is full!” post. I was contacted by a lawyer that was using a...
2022-01-12 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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SQL Database Error - BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup
SQL Database Error - BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup
2022-01-12
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SQL Server 2019 on Apple Silicon redux: it actually works
Last month I wrote a blog post suggesting that it was not possible to get SQL Server 2019 running on Apple Silicon. I hedged my statement by saying you...
2022-01-12
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Troubleshoot “Database might contain bulk-logged changes that have not been backed up” in SQL Server
Troubleshoot “Database might contain bulk-logged changes that have not been backed up” in SQL Server
2022-01-12
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T-SQL query to check SQL Server min server memory(MB) and max server memory(MB)
T-SQL query to check SQL Server min server memory(MB) and max server memory(MB)
2022-01-12
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#TSQL2sday – Preconceived Notions About Who Is Smart
For this month’s #TSQL2day, Andy Yun asked folks to share about “something you’ve learned, that subsequently changed your opinion/viewpoint/etc. on something.” Now, there are technical subjects I could share...
2022-01-11
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Azure Database for MySQL
SQL Server is not the only database you build and deploy into Azure. Another very popular option is MySQL. Going back many years, this was actually my first database...
2022-01-11
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
Understanding Fabric MCP
By James Serra
Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more...
AWS RDS Aurora - our first approach
When starting with AWS RDS Aurora for managing relational databases in the cloud, many...
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SQL Password enforcing
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SQL Password enforcing
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How do I explain that SQL Server should not be used as a code repository?
This week my BI Developer colleague proudly showed me a new Power BI report...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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