Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a built-in dry-run option to preview which files it would remove. But there’s a simple workaround,...
2025-12-10 (first published: 2025-11-27)
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Announced at Microsoft Ignite two weeks ago were many new product features related to the data platform. Check out the Major announcements and Book of News. I went through the many announcements and picked...
2025-12-10 (first published: 2025-12-02)
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"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.Dave: What’s the problem?HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as...
2025-12-08 (first published: 2025-11-24)
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Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore and communicate data. When Power BI was first created, it was used in situations that...
2025-12-08 (first published: 2025-11-24)
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Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore how it works. This is a short look at this tool and how it might...
2025-12-05 (first published: 2025-11-24)
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Last week, I attended the annual PASS Data Summit in Seattle. This was the fourth year of the event since Red Gate took over stewardship of PASS after that...
2025-12-05 (first published: 2025-11-24)
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Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of time and effort, more so when you build your own content. So why teach?
2025-12-05
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This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of what our Customers Say about us. However, this is what our employees said about the...
2025-12-05
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here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.
2025-12-04
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Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113040@N04/albums/72177720330695911 A few of my favorites: Here’s one of the 8 ball and keynote (and...
2025-12-04
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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