A Memory-Optimized Roundup – T-SQL Tuesday #117
The summary from my fourth T-SQL Tuesday hosting for #117. This time I was scrambling a bit, but since I’ve worked with a few customers in the last year...
2019-08-20
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Blog Posts
How do you debug your spark-dotnet app in visual studio?
When you run an application using spark-dotnet, to launch the application you need to use spark-submit to start a java virtual machine which starts the spark-dotnet driver which then...
2019-08-20
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How do you debug your spark-dotnet app in visual studio?
When you run an application using spark-dotnet, to launch the application you need to use spark-submit to start a java virtual machine which starts the spark-dotnet driver which then...
2019-08-20
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July 2019 – New Microsoft security update for Spectre variant
If you remember the flurry of news from the beginning of 2018 about side channel attacks called Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft has included in its July update a patch...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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My Preferences for SSIS Design
Lately, I have been using SSIS execution frameworks and Biml created by other people to populate data marts and data warehouses. It has taught me a few things and...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-08)
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5 Things You Need To Know When Reading SQL Server Execution Plans
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. 5 Things You Need To Know When Reading SQL Server Execution Plans In the first part of this series I explained what an execution...
2019-08-19 (first published: 2019-08-06)
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Azure DevOps: How to Set a Custom Release Branch Folder Filter in Build Pipeline Triggers (video)
This is the first in a series of posts about simple things that I had a hard time figuring out in Azure DevOps services. It can be very useful...
2019-08-19
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Beginning T-SQL and Career Roadmap for Women (and Men)! #SQLSatBR
Download session materials and watch the recordings of my excellent sessions on Transact-SQL and IT careers! I'm looking especially at you, women in technology!
The post Beginning T-SQL and Career...
2019-08-19
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Feature Restrictions in SQL Server 2019 are Worse Than Useless: a False Sense of Security And Wasted Opportunity
A misguided attempt to improve security that not only increases the chances of SQL Injection, but also prevented useful changes from being made.… Continue reading Feature Restrictions in...
2019-08-19 (first published: 2019-08-05)
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A simple Machine Learning process example (supervised) – just to start with
I have just written the fifth article of the Machine Learning topic. !!! This time it is an example of the process – step by step. Do not miss...
2019-08-17
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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