My new course “Maintaining, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to Pluralsight! ...
2020-06-30
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In this month’s Power BI Digest Matt and I will again guide you through some of the latest and greatest Power BI updates this month.
2020-06-30 (first published: 2020-06-11)
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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...
2020-06-29
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It’s another HAL! Every once in a while (4 times now) I come up with a terrible terrible idea for ... Continue reading
2020-06-29
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Dynamic measures are an effective way to avoid crowding your report with different versions of the same visual without using bookmarks. No disrespect to the versatility of bookmarks, but...
2020-06-29 (first published: 2020-06-16)
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Under compatibility level 150, in both SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database, you now can use batch mode for CPU-bound analytic type workloads without requiring columnstore indexes. There...
2020-06-29 (first published: 2020-06-16)
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Press ExpandString in Powershell This function can do much more than you think. Pester – using -should -throw Useful example when you want to filter output by ExceptionType or ErrorId....
2020-06-28
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For the past few months most of the world has been in quarantine and you may think that this is the new normal, especially now that “re-opening” has been...
2020-06-28
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I believe that language matters, and that it is worth our effort to move away from language associated with slavery and racism whenever possible. Azure DevOps doesn’t technically allow...
2020-06-26
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On June 3rd PASS announced their annual Summit for Data Professionals was moved to a virtual format. This is not surprising to those of us in the SQL Server...
2020-06-26 (first published: 2020-06-11)
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By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers