Charting in Azure Data Studio
The March 2020 release of Azure Data Studio (ADS) includes a charting feature for SQL queries. This is a quick look at the feature, which I think will have...
2020-04-10 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 10 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-10
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Diversity & Inclusivity – a personal journey
This article is about my own experiences in making my user group and community events more inclusive for people from diverse backgrounds. I am going to use growing my...
2020-04-10 (first published: 2020-03-31)
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The Car Game
I started this on Facebook, privately with friends. I heard about it from one of them and liked it. I didn’t get many guesses, so I took a chance...
2020-04-10
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Daily Coping 9 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-09
16 reads
Replaying Workloads to a different Database
One of the features I was asked to implement for WorkloadTools is the ability to replay commands to a database name different from the one recorded in the source...
2020-04-09 (first published: 2020-03-31)
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Running Jupyter Notebooks as Agent Jobs
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can have...
2020-04-09 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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SQL Saturday Organizer Q&A
A little while ago, Ray Kim (blog | twitter) asked a few folks who organize SQL Saturday events a few questions for his blog. The results are in and...
2020-04-09
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Webinar: How to unlock the value of frequent deployments
I’m doing a webinar next week, on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, that looks at some of the learnings from the 2020 State of Database DevOps report. I’ll be discussing...
2020-04-09
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Administration Basics: Point in time recovery
Nowadays, data is a precious asset for companies today. If you are a database administrator (by decision or by mistake) or simply you are the "IT guy," you have...
2020-04-08 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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