I am speaking at the PASS Virtual Summit 2020
After being selected to present my full day pre-conference session at the Summit, I am very pleased to announce that I will also be presenting my Database Administration Through...
2020-07-29
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Blog Posts
Notifying a Teams Channel of a SQL Agent Job result
Following on from yesterdays post about creating an overview of SQL Agent Job Results and sending it to a Teams channel, I was given another challenge Can you write...
2020-07-29
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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values for...
2020-07-29
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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values for...
2020-07-29
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Azure Cosmos DB High Availability and Disaster Recovery Architecture
Part 6 in Azure Cosmos DB architecture Series Keep Learning and Spread your Knowledge if you don’t read the previous parts I highly recommend you to take a look...
2020-07-28
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Certified Azure Administrator (AZ-104) – Passed!!!
Back in March I saw a Tweet about the beta Microsoft Certification Exam AZ-104 program was looking for 300 candidates to take the exam by May 31st. Since moving...
2020-07-28
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Comparing SSIS and Azure Data Factory
For the better part of 15 years, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the go-to enterprise extract-transform-load (ETL) tool for shops running on Microsoft SQL Server. More recently,...
2020-07-28 (first published: 2020-07-16)
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Daily Coping 28 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-28
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Management Studio Find & Replace Using Regular Expressions
In my last Management Studio tip, I demonstrated how you can drag and drop column names to a query window. The only part I do not like about that...
2020-07-28
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Using LAST_QUERY_PLAN_STATS in SQL Server 2019
In my opinion, SQL Server 2019 is one of the greatest releases of the product that Microsoft has ever produced. The amount of improvements across the platform really allows...
2020-07-28 (first published: 2020-07-17)
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Blogs
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
Troubleshooting SQL Server – Starting with the Error Log
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
Forums
Work out closing balance using opening balance of prior month
Hello, I think I need a recursive cte query but unsure of the logic....
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Tables with a SPARSE Column and Consumption
True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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