Negative Port Numbers
Validating your server setup is an integral component of your duties as a SQL Server DBA. When performing those validations, it is possible to run into an intriguing difference...
2019-12-31
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Blog Posts
Notifications in Azure Data Factory: Email, Internal Alerts, Log Analytics Alerts
(2019-Dec-15) While working on data integration projects and using Azure Data Factory as your main orchestration tool will help you to develop strategic forward thinking about your development tasks: to...
2019-12-31 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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Schema evolution solved using Delta Lake & Databricks
Don’t know about you, but one of my least favourite data pipeline errors is
the age-old failure caused by schema changes in the data source, especially
when these don’t...
2019-12-31 (first published: 2019-12-15)
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Get a List of Files with Data
The trick here is to find a way to search thousands of files quickly and filter easily the bad from the good. Sounds like an opportunity for an automation...
2019-12-30
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Last Week Reading (2019-12-29)
Hello boys & girls! This is the last post in “Last Week Reading” series in this decade. Can you believe that? Have you had a good Christmas time? Have...
2019-12-30
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Last Week Reading (2019-12-29)
Hello boys & girls! This is the last post in “Last Week Reading” series in this decade. Can you believe that? Have you had a good Christmas time? Have...
2019-12-30
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What happens if I disable the clustered index?
You are probably already aware that you can disable an index. This can be handy when you have a large ... Continue reading
2019-12-30 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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What is the Merit of the Job?
One tries to climb the ladder of success but at the cost of being an approachable human being. Nice people don't need to finish last.
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2019-12-30
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What is the Merit of the Job?
One tries to climb the ladder of success but at the cost of being an approachable human being. Nice people don't need to finish last.
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To Influence or...
2019-12-30
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Who needs data access? Not You!
With a little planning and care, we can find various ways to fulfill user requests without compromising the environment.
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2019-12-30 (first published: 2019-12-12)
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Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
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Running SQLCMD II
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers