What’s in the pipeline for Power BI?
If you’re interested in Power BI (or the Power platform in general), you might be interested in checking out the release overview guides of “2019 release wave 2” for...
2019-09-02
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Blog Posts
Why do DBAs dislike loops?
If you started out as a developer you were probably taught how important loops are. They are one of the ... Continue reading
2019-09-02 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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Persisting SQL Server Data in Docker Containers – Part 1
What’s the number one thing a data professional wants to do with their data…keep it around. Let’s talk about running SQL Server in Containers using Docker Volumes on a...
2019-09-01
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Persisting SQL Server Data in Docker Containers – Part 1
What’s the number one thing a data professional wants to do with their data…keep it around. Let’s talk about running SQL Server in Containers using Docker Volumes on a...
2019-09-01
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Persisting SQL Server Data in Docker Containers – Part 2
So in my previous post, we discussed Docker Volumes and how they have a lifecycle independent of the container enabling us to service the container image independent of the data...
2019-09-01
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Persisting SQL Server Data in Docker Containers – Part 2
So in my previous post, we discussed Docker Volumes and how they have a lifecycle independent of the container enabling us to service the container image independent of the data...
2019-09-01
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Persisting SQL Server Data in Docker Containers – Part 3
In the first two posts in this series we discussed the need for data persistency in containers then we discussed where the data actually lives on our systems. Now...
2019-09-01
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Persisting SQL Server Data in Docker Containers – Part 3
In the first two posts in this series we discussed the need for data persistency in containers then we discussed where the data actually lives on our systems. Now...
2019-09-01
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September on the Road
I am so excited for the next three weeks. This is a trip that has been in the planning for nearly 2 years. I have always loved travelling and...
2019-09-01
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The Journey to SQL Server 2019 – where does your own journey start?
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] A couple of weeks back I presented the keynote at SQL Server Saturday Sydney, which was an absolute blast. It was...
2019-08-31
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Blogs
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,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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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