Daily Coping 1 Sep 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...
2021-09-01
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Blog Posts
Experiment: Does sp_recompile on a table update associated views.
tldr: No. You have to use sp_refreshview. One of the only good things to come out of all of the ... Continue reading
2021-09-01 (first published: 2021-08-17)
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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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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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Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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