Moving the Community Forward
Today is the last day that the PASS and SQL Saturday websites will be active. It’s possible that they will be shut down as this post gets published, and...
2021-01-15
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Blog Posts
Speaking at C# Corner’s Virtual Conference
C# Corner is holding a virtual SQL Server conference on Jan 29-30, 2021. This is a charitable event, aimed at raising money for children affected by COVID-19. I’ll be...
2021-01-15 (first published: 2021-01-07)
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SQL Server Linux
If you have come from a windows background you may be curious about the world of SQL Server Linux. Yes, the operating system and the implementation of it differs...
2021-01-15
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Two methods of deployment Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory is a fantastic tool which allows you to orchestrate ETL/ELT processes at scale. This post is NOT about what Azure Data Factory is, neither how to...
2021-01-15
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Daily Coping 14 Jan 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...
2021-01-14
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Farewell, Gareth Swanepoel
Not easy to say, Gareth passed away a few days ago. We’d both gotten busy and with Covid added in, we had not caught up in a while. Now,...
2021-01-14
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Farewell, Gareth Swanepoel
Not easy to say, Gareth passed away a few days ago. We’d both gotten busy and with Covid added in, we had not caught up in a while. Now,...
2021-01-14
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Query to list all the procedures and triggers not having SET NOCOUNT ON defined
It is a tiny query in size but can play a crucial role to avoid overhead, caused due to missing SET NOCOUNT ON definition in the stored procedures and...
2021-01-14
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SQLSaturday Doesn’t Have to Be a Platform
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...
2021-01-14
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T-SQL script to find hierarchy of tables – Row-wise result
As I promised in my previous post T-SQL script to find hierarchy of tables – Columnar result – SQL Server Carpenter, here is another version of the query to...
2021-01-14 (first published: 2021-01-07)
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Blogs
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Forums
Rethinking How We Approach Assignment Help
Assignments aren’t just tasks to submit—they’re opportunities to build understanding, discipline, and problem-solving skills....
What's new in R 4.6
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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