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2018-11-16
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Blog Posts
Learning New Skills
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #108 prompt by Malathi Mahadevan. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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Microsoft Professional Program vs Microsoft Certification
When learning new technologies many people will go towards training courses (in person or online) but many also go for...
2018-11-15
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Monitor Database Offline Events
Hopefully, a database being taken offline is a known event and not a surprise. Occasionally there are gremlins, in the form of users with too many permissions, that tend...
2018-11-15
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T-SQL Tuesday – Non-SQL Server Technologies
So, this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is to think about a non-SQL Server technology that we want to learn.
For me,...
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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TSQL Tuesday #108 – Learning to Learn
G’day,
One attribute that I think is more relevant today than ever is to have a broad base of skills with...
2018-11-15
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Azure SQL Database – Fixing My Scaling Failure
This is kind of a follow up from my last blog post about a scale down request issue. (https://blobeater.blog/2018/11/07/azure-sql-database-aborting-scale-request/) I...
2018-11-14
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Copying Individual Tables with dbatools
@SQLMonkeyNYC asked on Twitter this morning:
#sqlhelp Does anyone have a product that will back up a single table and restore it to another database? Thanks in advance!!
— The SQL...
2018-11-14
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Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATEADD()
We are now in the home stretch of the long-running series about dates and times in SQL Server and Azure...
2018-11-14
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Filtered Indexes in SQL Server
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2018-11-14 (first published: 2018-11-05)
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Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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