New Pluralsight Course – LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services
My new course “LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the...
2018-02-17
525 reads
SQL Server Error 3013: Restore Database is Terminating Abnormally
Overview of SQL Server Error 3013
One of the most frustrating situations that a user experiences while working with SQL Server...
2018-02-17
17,554 reads
CROSS JOIN for fun
My son, who wishes to be known as “Pigeon” for the duration of this blog, was mixing the names of Hogwarts...
2018-02-17
1,111 reads
dbatools and Orphaned Users
I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and...
2018-02-16
797 reads
Black Panther is Going to Change Superhero Movies
Hello Dear Reader! Sorry it has been so long, I've been blogging over on the MSDN site about technology. I'll have a Twitter Sentiment update for Black Panther later...
2018-02-16
9 reads
Black Panther is Going to Change Superhero Movies
Hello Dear Reader! Sorry it has been so long, I've been blogging over on the MSDN site about technology. I'll...
2018-02-16
410 reads
Backup & Restore Script with a Move
Ok, I’ll admit it. I like scripts that are handy and do things. Especially if the scripts make my life...
2018-03-01 (first published: 2018-02-16)
2,339 reads
TDE and backup compression – still not working?
Until SQL 2016 if you used TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) you couldn’t use backup compression.
In 2016 Microsoft changed this, but...
2018-03-01 (first published: 2018-02-16)
2,399 reads
A Guide for Decrypting SQL Server Database Objects
Overview
The SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 provide a new feature for encrypting data to protect it from...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-16)
4,562 reads
"What's New in SQL 2017?" at the Baton Rouge SQL Server UG meeting
We had a great joint meeting tonight of the Baton Rouge SQL and .NET User Groups at the Louisiana Tech...
2018-02-15
551 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers