Daily Coping 31 Mar 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...
2021-03-31
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Blog Posts
Generate a Random Number for Each Row in a Query {a better way}
A couple of years ago I wrote a post on how to generate a random number in SQL Server. https://sqlundercover.com/2017/06/22/generating-random-numbers-for-each-row-over-a-specified-range-and-other-funky-stuff-you-can-do-with-them/ It’s ok and it works, it’s also a method...
2021-03-31
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How to add a Constant value to Dynamic JSON array in Azure Data Factory
(2021-Mar-22) I had an interesting Azure Data Factory (ADF) case last week while pulling a list of files from an Azure Storage account with the help of [Get Metadata] activity....
2021-03-31 (first published: 2021-03-23)
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Moving Into Consulting 101 - Part 2 - The Tact of a Consultant
This is part two in a five part series this week, Moving into Consulting 101.
Today's consulting topic is friendly advice on how to handle yourself in front of clients,...
2021-03-31 (first published: 2021-03-23)
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Serverless Azure SQL DB can show incorrect data space usage in the Portal
A quick PSA on the behaviour of Serverless Azure SQL DB space reporting in the Azure Portal. I recently had to shrink a large Azure SQL DB for cost...
2021-03-31
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SQL Agent Jobs – When Success is Failure
Have you ever run across an issue that made you take a step back and scratch your head? Recently, I had this exact situation hit my Inbox. One of...
2021-03-31
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Zeroing out a transaction log file does not use zeroes
I’ve been doing SQLskills training recently, and Paul Randal (blog | Twitter) reminded our class that zeroing out a transaction log file does not use zeroes (0x00). Well, not...
2021-03-31
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Daily Coping 30 Mar 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...
2021-03-30
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Filtering SQL Compare to a Schema
One of the things that numerous clients have some to Redgate about is allowing a team of developers to work on a single shared database without creating conflicts. While...
2021-03-30 (first published: 2021-03-22)
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Moving Into Consulting 101
Introduction to this blog series
After being laid off by a Great Recession-era mortgage company in 2007, I entered into consulting. I made that switch from in-house DBA to consulting...
2021-03-30 (first published: 2021-03-22)
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Blogs
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Forums
Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
In one of my environments I have 3 pairs of Always On SQL 2022...
Learning From Breakage
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Python in Action to Auto-Generate an Optimized PostgreSQL Index Strategy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Python in Action to Auto-Generate...
Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers