Reading a SharePoint List with Azure Logic App
Sometimes in life you have to do things you really don’t like to do. Such as extracting data from a SharePoint List. Usually I use SSIS and the OData...
2020-04-07
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #125 – Unit testing databases – we need to do this!!
Welcome to the first April edition of T-SQL Tuesday. I’m honoured to be hosting it and have picked a topic that is near and dear to me. If you...
2020-04-07
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COVID-19 - Work & Life Changes, How We're Coping
Settle in folks, this is a long, rambling post.
As this goes live, it’s been about three weeks since my abrupt switch from driving to the office every day to...
2020-04-06
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Daily Coping 6 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...
2020-04-06
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Error handling protip: @@Error resets after the next command
The system variable @@ERROR is a quick and easy way to retrieve the error number from the last statement run ... Continue reading
2020-04-06 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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Getting Your dbatools Version–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I was trying to test something recently and...
2020-04-06
166 reads
SQL Server and VMware Resource Pools
Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are available for use at the VMware host cluster layer. To better prioritize certain VMs over...
2020-04-06
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T-SQL Tuesday Live–7 Apr 2020
Last week went a little crazy, and I learned something: don’t post a Zoom link on Twitter. My apologies to anyone that wanted to join and had things go...
2020-04-06
12 reads
Understanding Disk Performance and IOPS in cloud platform
In the past many years, apart from working as DBA, I was working with multiple cloud technologies and actively involved in the migration process to cloud infrastructure. In between,...
2020-04-06 (first published: 2020-03-29)
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What Prevents You From Securing Your Servers?
Reading about how hackers are using SQL Server instances that are exposed on the internet AND have weak passwords to work into systems, I’m sitting here wondering why. I...
2020-04-06
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Blogs
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
Forums
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
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Designing SQL Server Pipelines That Are Ready for AI Before You Actually Need AI
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Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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