Daily Coping 29 Apr 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...
2021-04-29
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Blog Posts
Modernizing Your T-SQL: String Aggregation
This is another in a group of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server. SQL Server 2016 gave us the STRING_SPLIT()...
2021-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-18)
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T-SQL Copy & Paste Pattern – Increasing a performance problem
Disclaimer: The title is my assumption because I saw it in the past happening this way. This blog post aims to make you remember something: something that is obvious...
2021-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-21)
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WITDC Mental Health and Wellness Day- May 7th
Next Friday WITDC is having a Mental Health and Wellness Day virtual event and I’ll be speaking! I can’t tell ... Continue reading
2021-04-29
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.NET PowerShell Notebooks – Using Pester
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions. .NET Notebooks are Jupyter Notebooks that use .NET core to enable C#,...
2021-04-28 (first published: 2020-02-22)
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2020 Advent of Code–Day 4
This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. As one of my goals, I’m working through challenges. This post looks at day 4. I’m going to do this...
2021-04-28
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Ambling through undocumented DBCC commands may result in boredom
There comes a time when we heed a certain call. The call is to avoid dangerous undocumented DBCC commands in SQL Server, especially those that bypass built-in protections. I’m...
2021-04-28
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Daily Coping 28 Apr 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...
2021-04-28
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My Deadlock Resolution Progress Report
As I wrote last month, I went through a period of feeling personally and professionally deadlocked, and flailed about for some time before I found the answer of making...
2021-04-28 (first published: 2020-02-21)
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Daily Coping 27 Apr 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...
2021-04-27
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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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