Importance of data governance in the Covid era
Covid-driven disruption calls for a higher degree of consistency and clarity on the data assets handled by any organization, because in the months to come there will be a...
2021-01-05
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Blog Posts
Retrieving Log Analytics Data with Data Factory
I’ve been working on a project where I use Azure Data Factory to retrieve data from the Azure Log Analytics API. The query language used by Log Analytics is...
2021-01-05 (first published: 2020-12-24)
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Saving the Day from Delay: Recap & Series Kick-Off
Ironically, I’m a few months behind on a recap for my presentation on building and using a sustainable, dynamic date query in M code – Saving the Day from...
2021-01-05
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SQL Homework – January 2020 – Create an End of Year/New Year checklist.
It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. While that may be particularly true ... Continue reading
2021-01-05
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Stellar Repair for MS SQL - Product Review
Stellar Data Recovery has an amazing product designed for the Microsoft SQL Server platform to provide data recovery solutions where databases or backups get corrupted, login passwords are unknown,...
2021-01-05
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Stellar Repair for MS SQL - Product Review
Stellar Data Recovery has an amazing product designed for the Microsoft SQL Server platform to provide data recovery solutions where databases or backups get corrupted, login passwords are unknown,...
2021-01-05
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Syncing SQL databases
There are various ways to keep SQL Server databases and SQL Database/SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) databases in-sync asynchronously that I will discuss in this blog. The main use...
2021-01-05 (first published: 2021-01-04)
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[MSSQLTIPS] Rookie of the Year Candidate – Vote for ME
Welcome to the New Year of 2021. For some people I know, they might prefer to forget most if not all of 2020. Personally, I am not one...
2021-01-04
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2020 Year in Review
Yeah, so…that was a hell of a year, wasn’t it?
Short-Form Reviews of Year 2020 Reviewer #1: 👎
Reviewer #2: ★✩✩✩✩, would not recommend
Best Laid Plans… The year started out really...
2021-01-04
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Daily Coping 4 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...
2021-01-04
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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...
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Rethinking How We Approach Assignment Help
Assignments aren’t just tasks to submit—they’re opportunities to build understanding, discipline, and problem-solving skills....
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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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