What is a container anyway?
Recently there was a thread on Twitter which established that a lot of IT people didn’t know the difference between virtual machines and containers. |???????|| CONTAINERS || ARE NOT...
2019-06-19
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Blog Posts
What permissions do temp stored procedures use?
In a performance tuning class I recently took with Brent Ozar (b/t) he mentioned temporary stored procedures and an interesting ... Continue reading
2019-06-19
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Achieving application consistent recovery points of SQL Server 2008 R2 with Azure Site Recovery in Azure
If you want to use ASR to replicate SQL Server 2008 R2 standalone or clustered instances, you will need to update the SQL Writer to 2012 or later. You...
2019-06-18
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Globally Distributed Azure Cosmos DB
Let’s use the Azure portal to build a globally distributed Cosmos DB. Before doing this, why would you ? what are the benefits? Regional based. By this I mean...
2019-06-18
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Implicit Conversion Fail
Implicit conversions are not uncommon in the computing world and can be viewed as kind of a fail-safe for when we don't quite follow decent practices when designing the...
2019-06-18 (first published: 2019-05-31)
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
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Trello For The User Group
I’m trying Trello this year to manage both SQLSaturday and our other events. Part of that is giving the whole team visibility of the work that remains to be...
2019-06-18
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What You Need to Know About Data Classifications in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Data classifications in Azure SQL DW entered public preview in March 2019. They allow you to label columns in your data warehouse with their information type and sensitivity level....
2019-06-18 (first published: 2019-05-30)
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Bump nuspec file version with powershell
Bump Nuspec Version
Bumping the version of the nuspec file requires a little tweaking and I got some help from the slack powershell community to ensure I handled the xml...
2019-06-17
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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,...
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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