Ever wonder what that goofy query in the header means?
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again (Number 76!) and this month we are hosted by Bob Pusateri (b/t) who has invited...
2016-03-08
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No Joke, SQL Server on Linux
Yesterday Microsoft made the earth shattering news that a version of SQL Server with the “core relational database capabilities” will be...
2016-03-08
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Polishing The Silverware
A few weeks ago I met a couple of my business partners in a moderately upscale restaurant in the Washington,...
2016-03-08
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Announcing SQL Server on Linux
Yes, you read that right. SQL Server will be ported to Linux. Here’s the Blog post from Scott Guthrie.
http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/
Today I’m...
2016-03-08
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SQL Server on Linux
When I started working with SQL Server many years ago, SQL Server on Linux was a regular April fool’s day...
2016-03-08
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Columnstore Indexes – part 79 (“Loading Data into Non-Updatable Nonclustered Columnstore”)
Continuation from the previous 78 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Update: In SQL Server 2016 the Nonclustered...
2016-03-07
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Curious case of SYS.MESSAGES
A strange error struck me last week, and this post is all about that. What you normally expect when you run SELECT * FROM sys.messages? The query will return a...
2016-03-07
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Curious case of SYS.MESSAGES
A strange error struck me last week, and this post is all about that.
What you normally expect when you run...
2016-03-15 (first published: 2016-03-07)
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Monday Morning SQL Break – March 7, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL). This...
2016-03-07
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SQL Server Backups Are A Business Decision
Blog post #3 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel
Read more about Tim’s challenge here.
It’s very easy to think of...
2016-03-10 (first published: 2016-03-07)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Forums
"Click" your SQL Server into an MCP agent, with RBAC and full security
Hi guys and gals, I've created a system that automatically allows you to "generate"...
Demo Tracking Dropped Objects
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Randomly Selecting Columns and Rows from a Table or View
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Question of the Day
Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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