Things I Wish I Knew When I Started
Way back in August, Matt Cushing (blog|twitter) was preparing to teach and asked for a list of “what do you wish you’d known when you started” items that he...
2019-01-21
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Way back in August, Matt Cushing (blog|twitter) was preparing to teach and asked for a list of “what do you wish you’d known when you started” items that he...
2019-01-21
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Like many folks using Wordpress, I post a tweet each time I publish a blog entry and that’s done automatically by Wordpress. In the Wordpress Classic Editor, there was...
2019-01-14
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In my previous post, I outlined the preparations we undertook to migrate a large SQL Server 2008R2 instance to SQL Server 2016. This post details migration day.
Final Prep We...
2019-01-09
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A bit over a year ago, I blogged about my experience migrating a test SQL Server instance from a VM to a physical machine with a little help from...
2019-01-07
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As we open 2019, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year.
Blogging 2018 was my biggest year of blogging yet! I published 28 posts and...
2019-01-02
In my previous post, I mentioned that I wasn’t checking the status of my RSJobs because I had logging built into my function. I originally tried to log out...
2018-12-24
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Intro PowerShell has had a native method for spawning multiple “threads” ever since I can remember, in the form of the *-Job functions. They work OK, but there are...
2018-12-17
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Matt (blog | twitter) is preparing for his first SQL Saturday presentation next weekend in Washington, DC. He’s asked:
I wanted to get an idea of some good, bad, and...
2018-11-29
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Last year at PASS Summit 2017, I heard a number of comments related to people not recognizing me without the hat in my social media photo/avatar. The linked post...
2018-11-28
My album of people and events at Summit 2018. Somehow a number of photo opportunities were missed!
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2018-11-19
By Steve Jones
This value is something that I still hear today: our best work is done...
By gbargsley
Have you ever received the dreaded error from SQL Server that the TempDB log...
By Chris Yates
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It is here, embedded in the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Planning for tomorrow, today -...
We have a BI-application that connects to input tables on a SQL Server 2022...
At work we've been getting better at writing what's known as GitHub Actions (workflows,...
I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping AS SELECT cl.CityNameID, cl.CityName, o.OrderID, o.Customer, o.OrderDate, o.CustomerID, o.cityId FROM dbo.CityList AS cl INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID GO CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder ( @OrderID INT ) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50); SELECT @city = os.CityName FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID; RETURN @city; END; goWhat is the result? See possible answers