IN vs UNION ALL
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. When you need to filter query results on multiple values, you probably use an IN() statement or multiple predicates separated by ORs: or...
2019-05-13 (first published: 2019-04-30)
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Blog Posts
Last Week Reading (2019-05-12)
Hello folks! One week passed, another one almost began. And that will be a crazy week on two conferences. Today, I’m in Wroclaw (Poland) where we’re prepping SQLDay conference...
2019-05-13
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Changes to the PASS Bylaws
If you haven’t read the proposed changes yet you should do that first and form your own opinion before reading mine. Thoughts here are high level, not a line...
2019-05-10
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Deploy SSIS Packages with PowerShell .ISPAC Deployment, using the SSIS Provider
In today's world, people expect to be able to commit one change, then have the entire project re-deployed and automated tests run against it. Using the SSIS PowerShell...
2019-05-10 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Initialize-HgsServiceName Fails in VMWare
A short one, but one that took some digging and debugging and help from others. Saving here, so I remember, as do others. I had a VMWare Workstation v12.x...
2019-05-10 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Interview with Robert Farley
This is the third interview we have done. This time our guest is Robert Farley who can be also recognized as the famous guitar player! Here you can find...
2019-05-10
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Microsoft Build 2019 Announcements and Sessions on Demand
If you are like me and were unable to get away from the office to attend Microsoft Build 2019 you will be glad to know that Microsoft has published...
2019-05-10
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Execute SSIS Package from PowerShell
My friend Andy Leonard has written an excellent blog series on getting SSIS up & running in a Docker container. I would never have even tried to go down...
2019-05-09 (first published: 2019-04-30)
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Is Your Availability Group ‘REALLY’ Ready To Failover?
You know what it’s like, you need to fail your AG over but is it safe to fail over? Perhaps you’ve clicked on ‘failover’ for the AG and there’s...
2019-05-09 (first published: 2019-04-29)
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Azure Data Factory: Extracting array first element
(2019-Apr-28) Full credit goes to Microsoft for the latest efforts updating Azure products with new features and documenting corresponding changes for the end users. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a great...
2019-05-08 (first published: 2019-04-29)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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