SQL Saturday #796 – Minnesota, 2018
First, many thanks to the SQL Saturday and MNPass team for putting on another great event and letting me participate.
I...
2018-10-08
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Blog Posts
SQL Server monitoring with built-in features
Do you think you need to use commercial tools like SQL Diagnostic Manager, SQL Sentry, Spotlight etc.. ? Or do you think...
2018-10-07
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MongoDB-CHICAGO .Local
Continue to my interest on MongoDB Blog lastly on MongoDB 4.02, I attended MongoDB CHICOGO .local Sep 12 and learned so...
2018-10-06
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Data Types Word Search
Just for fun here is a word search with all of the data types available in SQL Server. Well, two...
2018-10-05 (first published: 2018-09-26)
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Don’t believe the myth TRUNCATE TABLE isn’t logged
Remember the Bill Gates email hoax? The one that claims to be some sort of Microsoft beta test saying Gates is going to pay cash money to anyone who...
2018-10-05
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Know How to Import SQL Server database From One to Another
Looking to import SQL Server database from one server to another ? Confused how to copy from one to another or...
2018-10-05
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Moving SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 clusters to #Azure for Extended Support
Earlier this year Microsoft announced extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 at no additional cost. However, the...
2018-10-05
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Setting up Code Repository for Azure Data Factory v2
In this blog post I want to quick go through one of useful capabilities that Microsoft provided with version 2...
2018-10-05
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SOS to ADS
When Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio last year, I wasn’t thrilled. The move to a VS Code shell was less...
2018-10-05 (first published: 2018-09-24)
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Walmart Chose Azure, How About You?
Another major corporation has announced their decision to move to Azure. Perhaps you’ve heard of them? Walmart—yes, Walmart and Microsoft...
2018-10-05
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Blogs
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,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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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