How I Continuously Learn About SQL Server
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2019-07-16
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How I Continuously Learn About SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
In order to stay current in a technology you have to immerse yourself in community content.
Documentation is good for knowing the specification of a...
2019-07-16
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Painless Synchronization of Azure Blob Storage with AWS S3
Synchronization
Moving data between two cloud providers can be painful, and require more provider scripting if doing api calls. For this, you can benefit from a tool that abstracts the...
2019-07-16
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SQL Engine basics: Caching data
SQL Server engine does an excellent job to optimize query performance and it has different methods to achieve this goal, one of these methods is the data caching.Data caching...
2019-07-16 (first published: 2019-07-05)
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Getting Your SQL Server Backup Footprint
Recently, I needed to be able to determine the total size for all the most recent full backups for certain servers. Luckily for me these particular servers were using...
2019-07-15 (first published: 2019-06-28)
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Know How to Restore SQL Database Without Backup Easily
Restore SQL Database Without Backup -Step By Step Guide
Microsoft SQL server is one of the best and the widely used relational database management system. The primary function of this...
2019-07-15 (first published: 2019-07-02)
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Power Platform Conference – 7/23-24/2019
Pragmatic Works is hosting a 2-day Power Platform online conference. If you are unable to get out to onsite conference but need some help with Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, or...
2019-07-15
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Refreshing dependent views after a DDL change
When you are in charge of databases with tons of objects, making a small change over an object can be difficult to replicate if you have a lot of...
2019-07-15
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sp_RestoreScript v1.4 – It’s Now Compatible with Case Sensitive Collations, Accepts Wild Cards in DB Names and Fixes A bug
sp_RestoreScript 1.4 is now out and ready for download from our GitHub, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/sp_restorescript.sql New Features Compatible with case sensitive collations Now accepts wild cards in the @DatabaseName string, (‘Database1,Database2,SQL%’)...
2019-07-15
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spark-dotnet examples - reading and writing csv files
How do you read and write CSV files using the dotnet driver for Apache Spark?
I have a runnable example here:
https://github.com/GoEddie/dotnet-spark-examples
Specifcally:
https://github.com/GoEddie/dotnet-spark-examples/tree/master/examples/split-csv
Let's take a walkthrough of the demo:
Console.WriteLine("Hello Spark!"); var spark...
2019-07-15
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
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