Statistics objects are important for allowing the SQL Server Optimizer to make good estimates and form efficient execution plans. Related to that it's useful for us to understand when...
2021-01-25 (first published: 2021-01-18)
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This blog post is about a situation where you are capitalising an argument in bash and you get the following error: bash: ${state^^}: bad substitution In this example I...
2021-01-24
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This blog post is about a situation where writing an IF THEN ELSE statement with variables fails with something like ./scalePREPROD.sh: line 26: [[1: command not found This was...
2021-01-23
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We just finished a memorial for Gareth Swanepoel. He was an amazing person and someone I wish I’d gotten to ... Continue reading
2021-01-22 (first published: 2021-01-14)
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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...
2021-01-22
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Last week we lost another SQLFamily member. Gareth Swanepoel passed away on 8 Jan 2021. He was a fellow speaker, jolly fellow, and Microsoft PM. Across many years of...
2021-01-22 (first published: 2021-01-14)
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Data Saturday #2 – Guatemala is tomorrow. This is the first event on the calendar, though the second one to move from SQL Saturday over. I’m thrilled that this...
2021-01-22
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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...
2021-01-21
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Python is the most famous development language today.
This is because is open-source, scalable and robust. It can run in almost any device with a processor (or microprocessor, we will...
2021-01-21 (first published: 2021-01-14)
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When we built the first SQLSaturday it was about 2 pages of HTML. No login, no tools, just get it done. Worked ok. Didn’t work so well for the...
2021-01-21 (first published: 2021-01-14)
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In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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