Daily Coping 2 Jun 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...
2020-06-02
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Blog Posts
Fun Fact: AWS RDS and system_health
Did you know that the system_health Extended Event session was running in your RDS instances? Well, it is. HOWEVER. This query, which works perfectly fine on my on premises...
2020-06-02
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Home Office Desk Evolution
Setting up a home office can be a daunting task. Doubly so when you don’t get an opportunity to plan it out and you have to set things up...
2020-06-02
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Monitoring Power BI
There are a number of options for monitoring Power BI that I wanted to mention: Performance analyzer: Find out how each of your report elements, such as visuals and...
2020-06-02 (first published: 2020-05-18)
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Power BI Incremental Refresh with Web API Data Source
It’s been a while since I typed up a blog post but life, even in the midst of a pandemic, has been busy and crazy. As you can imagine,...
2020-06-02 (first published: 2020-05-20)
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TSQL Tuesday #127 Invite – Non SQL Tips and tricks
How about for this months TSQL Tuesday let’s do another month of tips and tricks. But just to be a ... Continue reading
2020-06-02
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Can We Get Row Counts After Execution?
The general idea for this question came from dba.stackexchange.com: could we, and if we can, how, get row counts after execution. I was intrigued with the idea, so I...
2020-06-01 (first published: 2020-05-18)
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Daily Coping 1 Jun 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...
2020-06-01
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Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
[MSSQLFUN & Decode ITeS becomes a family of 1500 individuals across the globe. Please join us on Facebook & YouTube.] Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a...
2020-06-01
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Setting Up GitHub Desktop (formerly GitHub for Windows)
When I started using Git, I first download GitHub for Windows. I went searching, and instead found GitHub Desktop, which is the new client from GitHub for working with...
2020-06-01
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Blogs
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 4
By Zikato
Someone hacked Digitown's municipality and stole classified documents. 45 million rows of router traffic,...
EightKB 2026 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2026 Edition has been announced!...
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers