A quick primer on binary and hexadecimal
A few years ago, I wrote that a CPU is “a hot mess of on-off switches.” There’s more to it than that when you get into the weeds of...
2021-05-31 (first published: 2021-05-19)
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Born SQL with Randolph West
T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #015: Automation
In February 2011, Pat Wright invited us to talk about Automation: So the topic I have chosen for this month is Automation! It can be Automation with T-SQL or...
2021-05-12
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #014: Resolutions
At the end of 2010, Sean McCown (blog | Twitter) invited us to talk about resolutions: Things like getting certified, or perfecting a process, or taking management classes, etc...
2021-05-05
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Ambling through undocumented DBCC commands may result in boredom
There comes a time when we heed a certain call. The call is to avoid dangerous undocumented DBCC commands in SQL Server, especially those that bypass built-in protections. I’m...
2021-04-28
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Calgary Data User Group with Deborah Melkin and Andy Yun
Next week on Wednesday is the Calgary Data User Group’s second event for 2021, and the second event as a member of Microsoft’s new Azure Data Community. Since last...
2021-04-21
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #013: What the business wants
Click here to read previous retrospective entries. From Steve Jones (blog | Twitter) in December 2010 comes the question “What issues have you had in interacting with the business to get your...
2021-04-15 (first published: 2021-04-14)
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Upcoming speaking engagements
The last time I presented a session was at the final PASS Summit in November 2020, so it is time to get back on the virtual conference trail again....
2021-04-07
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Zeroing out a transaction log file does not use zeroes
I’ve been doing SQLskills training recently, and Paul Randal (blog | Twitter) reminded our class that zeroing out a transaction log file does not use zeroes (0x00). Well, not...
2021-03-31
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What is a community advisory board anyway?
For those of us who have been involved in the Microsoft Data Platform community for a few years, the events of the last few months have been dramatic, culminating...
2021-03-24
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #012: Why DBA skills are necessary
This is my ongoing series of answering T-SQL Tuesday posts far too late to be of any use. Click here if you want to read previous entries. Paul Randal...
2021-03-17
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Blogs
Export Extended Event Results to CSV or Table
This is something that I’ve seen pop up a couple of times on various...
Book Review – Fundamentals of Data Engineering
This book was recommended by some of my colleagues, so I decided to give...
Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs – Part 2
By James Serra
My previous blog post on this topic was Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs, the...
Forums
Creating an Index with a lot of Columns
Hi all. I have been working on SQL Environment that are really not well...
Parse Double Quoted comma separated data with comma
I've used this function before and I'm sorry I do not recall it's origination. ...
What is re-enabling Ole Automation Procedures?
Hello experts, I'm trying to disable (0) Ole Automation Procedures via sp_configure. But each...
Question of the Day
Logon Trigger Messages
I created this trigger in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE TRIGGER checksteve ON ALL SERVER FOR LOGON AS BEGIN IF ORIGINAL_LOGIN()= N'ARISTOTLE\Steve' PRINT 'Steve logged in' END; GOWhere can I view "Steve logged in"? See possible answers