T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #007: Summertime in the SQL
This is the seventh post in my retrospective attempt to answer every T-SQL Tuesday invitation. In the beginning of June 2010, Jorge Segarra invited us to write about our...
2020-12-09
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Blog Posts
Captioning Options for Your Online Conference
Many conferences have moved online this year due to the pandemic, and many attendees are expecting captions on videos (both live and recorded) to help them understand the content....
2020-12-08 (first published: 2020-11-24)
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Daily Coping 8 Dec 2020
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...
2020-12-08
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Installing & Configuring Microsoft SQL Server On Linux
This exercise demonstrates the installation and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server on Linux environment, this is a standalone deployment . Step 1 – Create “mssql”(more...)
2020-12-08
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Installing MySQL On Centos 7 Linux
In CentOS 7 Linux MariaDB is by default installed, due to this you may face issue installing MySQL. If you want to install MySQL, first(more...)
2020-12-08
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Installing Postgres Database
This exercise demonstrates the installation and configuration of Postgres database on Linux environment using source tar file. Step 1 – Download Postgres tar file wget(more...)
2020-12-08
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Open Letter to the PASS Membership,
When I was appointed to serve as a Director at Large for the PASS Organization a year ago, it was with great passion, excitement and enthusiasm. I had some...
2020-12-08
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Power BI – Hungry Median
Introduction Median is a useful statistical function, which first time appeared in SSAS 2016 and in Power BI around that year as well. There are several articles on how...
2020-12-08 (first published: 2020-11-24)
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T-SQL Tuesday #133: What (Else) Have I Learned from Presenting?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Lisa Bohm (b | t) and it’s about what else I have...
2020-12-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #133: What (Else) Have I Learned from Presenting?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Lisa Bohm (b | t) and it’s about what else I have...
2020-12-08
7 reads
Blogs
SQL Server 2025 RegEx and AI
By Steve Jones
One of the language changes in SQL Server 2025 that I’ve seen a lot...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: SQL Server 2025 Backup Changes
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, but I decided to put my own entry in as...
Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
By Chris Yates
I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases...
Forums
Columnstore index question
Hi experts, I’ve been going through several articles and videos about Columnstore indexes, but...
Transactional Replication
Recently stood up a 2022 Enterprise server. Have 8 publications with subscriptions on a...
Member was not found in the cube when the string
Hey, I've not done a cube for many years but I find myself supporting...
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Identify a Slipstream Installation
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