Daily Coping 31 Aug 2021
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...
2021-08-31
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Blog Posts
Expanded Button Formatting, New Spacing Controls, and Drag-and-Drop for List View Now in Block Editor
This month, our team released features in the block editor that give your site a little breathing room: spacing controls for buttons and paragraphs. And the List View tool...
2021-08-31
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Regular Expression Search & Replace in Visual Studio Code
Kind of a diversion into a Visual Studio Code/Azure Data Studio tip here (this works in both, as well as SQL Server Management Studio). I’m not a regular expression...
2021-08-31
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SQLCMD: Prevent an Entire Batch From Even Parsing With One Magical Character (Cruel Joke #4)
(last updated: 2021-09-01 @ 14:18 ET / 2021-09-01 @ 18:18 UTC ) In my previous post, SSMS and SQLCMD: Prevent T-SQL Batch From Not Only Executing, but Also From...
2021-08-31
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Allan Hirt presenting BC Foundations 31 Aug 2021
I’m thrilled to host Allan Hirt presenting an exciting session called “SQL Server Business Continuity Foundations” this Tuesday, August 31, at 10am Central time for our Microsoft Data Platform...
2021-08-30
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Daily Coping 30 Aug 2021
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...
2021-08-30
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How I carved up 18TB of Storage
In a previous post I told you about how I got a Synology DS920+ on loan to play around with. The device comes with 4 drive bays so there...
2021-08-30 (first published: 2021-08-13)
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More Interactive Notebooks from MS Docs
I saw a note from Microsoft recently that they are trying to improve some of the support experiences for customers that are going through their docs. The idea is...
2021-08-30 (first published: 2021-08-11)
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Daily Coping 27 Aug 2021
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...
2021-08-27
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Thoughts on a work/life balance – Spend Wisely : T-SQL Tuesday #141
Wow, it’s TSQL Tuesday again! Tjay Belt (blog|twitter) is our host this month and he’d like us to talk about ... Continue reading
2021-08-27 (first published: 2021-08-10)
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Blogs
A Small LLM Fail
By Steve Jones
Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely Indexes are...
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
SSIS packages failing with a status "ended unexpectedly" (SSL/TLS timeout ?)
We have an issue where SSIS packages are failing with a status of "ended...
SQL Newbie HELP: The query references an object that is not supported in distr..
Hi everyone! I'm new to SQL and am trying to query a view (dbo.)...
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