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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Blog Posts
Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
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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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Azure Cosmos DB API Architecture
Again, still we have a lot of information we can spread our knowledge on it for Cosmos DB today I will talk about Cosmos DB API options and How...
2020-07-27
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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