Azure Portal Enhancements – Switching Accounts
More and more I am impressed on the Azure Portal. Microsoft continues to make enhancements to the user interface (UI)...
2018-12-21
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Blog Posts
Database Fundamentals #20: Using the JOIN Operator, Inner Join
It is entirely possible to try to JOIN two tables on almost any field, as long as the two data...
2018-12-21 (first published: 2018-12-03)
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File Maintenance – Cleaning Up Old Files
We have all run into a need or a desire to clean up old stale files from the file system, whether it be to remove old backup files or...
2018-12-21
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Fun Time Friday: Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday
Black Friday (No,not Shopping!), Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the last Friday before Christmas (Today!) in the United Kingdom.It is the most...
2018-12-21
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Fun Time Friday: Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday
Black Friday (No,not Shopping!), Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the last Friday before...
2018-12-21
178 reads
MongoDB – DBs and Configurations
Continue to our last discussion , today we will be discussing on MongoDB default databases and more… When you install mongoDB...
2018-12-21
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Select-AzureRmProfile : The term ‘Select-AzureRmProfile’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program
I got a chance to work with PowerShell automation script to automate the login process. In the script, the profile...
2018-12-21
257 reads
SQL Server 2008 end of support
2018 is about to end. In the case you didn't know or haven't heard, the extended support for SQL Server 2008 (and R2) reaches to an end in 2019.
This...
2018-12-21
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SQL Server 2008 end of support
2018 is about to end. In the case you didn't know or haven't heard, the extended support for SQL Server...
2018-12-21
377 reads
Encrypting a Database Never Finishes
There is plenty of legislation and regulation in place these days that strongly suggest the encryption of data within a database. In SQL Server, we have the ability to...
2018-12-20
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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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