Let’s talk about typefaces
I have previously written about accessibility in video captions, presentation slides, and disabilities, and I thought I should expand on the latter topic as it relates to typefaces, or...
2021-09-01
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Blog Posts
Using PyApacheAtlas to import SQL Server extended properties to Azure Purview
Azure Purview is a compliance and data governance platform in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The platform is currently in public preview and has quite a few features; but, does not...
2021-09-01 (first published: 2021-08-11)
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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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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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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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