What is Hyper-V? and how to enable it?
Hyper-V is a Microsoft feature to create a virtualized environment. Hyper-V is available in your windows OS and you need to enable it from “Turn On or Off Windows...
2020-05-14
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Blog Posts
Adding Analysis Services (SSAS) to your SQL Server instance–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is a fairly simple task, but recently...
2020-05-13
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Clustered Index Key – Natural or Surrogate?
This article will follow a practical approach to choose the right candidate for clustered index. It'll investigate through the best practices recommended for clustered index, with the help of...
2020-05-13 (first published: 2020-04-28)
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 12: IS DISTINCT FROM
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2020-05-13 (first published: 2020-04-29)
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Daily Coping 13 May 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...
2020-05-13
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How SQL Server stores data types: integers and decimals
Last time we looked at the internals of how dates and times are stored in SQL Server. This week we’re going to look at how numbers are stored. This...
2020-05-13
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Installing the #SQLPrompt Public Preview in ADS
The SQL Prompt Public preview extension for Azure Data Studio is out and you can add this easily. This is a quick post showing a few ways to install...
2020-05-13
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Running Azure from my android phone
The other day I had a random thought. I wonder if there is a version of Azure Portal for Android. ... Continue reading
2020-05-13
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Daily Coping 12 May 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...
2020-05-12
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New Webinar with Kevin Kline: Learning from Data Breaches, a Deeper Dive
I’ve done a follow-on to my webinar with Kevin Kline on Learning from Data Breaches. Here we’ll talk about some specific technologies that come out of the box with...
2020-05-12
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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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identity increments by 10,000 when it was supposed to be 1
hi a peer of mine who ive never known to be wrong says a...
Displaying Money
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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