Pinned Tabs (Day 4)
Have you ever been working in SSMS where you need to frequently access one particular script, but you are spending...
2018-01-04
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WordPress: Create a Sidebar List of Parent/Child Pages
Recently, I wanted to create a list of pages for a custom WordPress sidebar. Specifically, I had a “parent” page, sqlworkbooks.com/free-sql-server-quizzes. Under this page, I had more than 30 individual...
2018-01-04
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Interview with Mohammad Darab
Recently I was interviewed by Mohammad Darab, and his questions were very insightful! I had a lot of fun answering...
2018-01-04
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MVP Data Platform
Holy Cow! I still can’t believe it, I was awarded the Microsoft MVP – Data Platform today. I guess I really...
2018-01-04
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Azure SQL Analytics
Azure SQL Analytics is currently in preview mode, still it is very impressive. The goal of this feature is to...
2018-01-04
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Sharepoint Diagnostics and XE
In this article I have introduced you to a quick session setup that comes from using the SPDiag tool that could plausibly be useful in the troubleshooting of various...
2018-01-04
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Sharepoint Diagnostics and XE
One of the all-time greatest and most beloved applications among DBAs happens to be Sharepoint. Most of us would be...
2018-01-04
1,671 reads
How Secure is Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) – and How to Prevent Hacking
TDE is commonly described as “at-rest” encryption, i.e. it protects your data wherever it is stored on disk. This includes...
2018-01-15 (first published: 2018-01-03)
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DevOps Does Not Make Admins Obsolete
As a follow up to my tweet, I stand by my belief that DevOps does not make administrators obsolete. I...
2018-01-11 (first published: 2018-01-03)
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Kicking Off The New Year With A Bang
Back in 2015, I said would think about speaking in my #TSQL2sday #61 post. Well here it is 2018 and...
2018-01-03
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Blogs
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers