AWS RDS and SQL Server Deadlocks
What’s the story with AWS RDS and SQL Server deadlocks? I’m approaching AWS RDS like I was taking on a new role at a new organization. Do we have...
2020-06-08
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 8 June 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...
2020-06-08
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Data On Wheels – Merging Two Great Minds
I am very excited to announce that my daughter, Kristyna Hughes, will be joining the Data On Wheels team. Our fates and paths to this point seem parallel though...
2020-06-08
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Ghost is taking full backup and breaking my backup chain . Be careful with Azure VM backup on VM having SQL server installation
I believe that I have strong knowledge in SQL Server backup and recovery process, but recently there was an incident which shook my confidence. I was working on a...
2020-06-08 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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OPENJSON and an Alias
Using Aliases in T-SQL is very common. We can alias both Tables (FROM clause) and Columns (SELECT clause) and some other things too. It’s all pretty fundamental to writing...
2020-06-08
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OPENJSON and an Alias
Using Aliases in T-SQL is very common. We can alias both Tables (FROM clause) and Columns (SELECT clause) and some other things too. It’s all pretty fundamental to writing...
2020-06-08
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Reading an dataset in R
I got a dataset file the other day with an .rds extension. I had never seen this, but with a quick Google, I figured out this was a dataset...
2020-06-08
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Send a Database Query Result as Email via Logic App in HTML format using Azure Data Factory
(2020-June-07) It is a very simple concept, you have a database query result, either a direct database table output or a stored procedure returned result that needs ...
2020-06-08
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Social: A Small Step to Address Poor Past Behavior
Tl;Dr – This is about changing your main branch in git to main. However, please read and think about what I am saying here. When I started working with...
2020-06-08
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Watch out for your own confirmation bias
First, a true story: I was a senior in high school, applying for college. One of the colleges I applied for was the Naval Academy. As part of the...
2020-06-08 (first published: 2020-05-22)
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Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
Forums
The New Wave of Security Threats
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There's Too Much to Learn
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How to Calculate Distance Between Coordinates in SQL Server
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SSoL Support on the OS
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