Daily Coping 6 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...
2021-01-06
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Blog Posts
Firewall Ports You Need to Open for Availability Groups
This article has demonstrated a meaningful and efficient method to test and validate the necessary firewall ports for Availability Groups (AG) and WFC.
The post Firewall Ports You Need to...
2021-01-06 (first published: 2020-12-31)
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
13 reads
Storage savings with Table Compression
In one of my recent assignments, my client asked me for a solution, to reduce the disk space requirement, of the staging database of an ETL workload. It made...
2021-01-06 (first published: 2020-12-31)
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #008: Gettin’ Schooled
To view posts about previous T-SQL Tuesday entries, please use this tag. The late, great, Robert Davis invited us on Independence Day 2010 to write about Gettin’ Schooled: We...
2021-01-06
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3 Highly Improved Help Queries for XEvents in Azure SQL
XEvents is here to stay and is a powerful tool for ALL of your SQL implementations - whether they be Azure SQL or the traditional on-premises SQL Server.
The post...
2021-01-05
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Daily Coping 5 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...
2021-01-05
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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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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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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers