Daily Coping 8 Jul 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...
2021-07-08
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Blog Posts
How to Fix SQL Database Error 8961?
Running DBCC CHECKDB or DBCC CHECKTABLE on a database may report error 8961. Such a situation could occur while changing the data type of a table column from “ntext...
2021-07-08
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Add DBCC INPUTBUFFER to Your Performance Tuning Toolbox
A command I like to use when performance tuning is DBCC INPUTBUFFER. If you have ever run sp_whoisactive or sp_who2 to find out what sessions are executing when CPU...
2021-07-07
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Centralized vs decentralized data architecture
One of the biggest differences between the Data Mesh and other data platform architectures is a data mesh is a highly decentralized distributed data architecture as opposed to a...
2021-07-07 (first published: 2021-06-30)
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Daily Coping 7 Jul 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...
2021-07-07
14 reads
New Azure Data Factory home page, what's in it for me?
(2021-July-07) Back in the late 90s when I was a college student intern at a local power supply company, I was invited to a social event of our IT department....
2021-07-07
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On accessibility in our community
Today I want to write about the community that brought us all together. The community that got this very website on your radar. The community that got many of...
2021-07-07
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Publishing your Chatbot in Power Virtual Agents
Power Virtual Agents empowers subject matter experts to build intelligent conversational bots, using a guided, no-code graphical interface. In this video you will learn how
2021-07-07
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Suggested Topics in Power Virtual Agents
Power Virtual Agents empowers subject matter experts to build intelligent conversational bots, using a guided, no-code graphical interface. In this video you will learn how
2021-07-07 (first published: 2021-06-22)
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T-SQL Tuesday #140: What have you been up to with containers?
In recent years containers have come into the data platform world, exposing new technologies to data professionals. Microsoft put SQL Server in Linux, and shortly after that, SQL Server...
2021-07-07
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers