SELECT FORMAT(COUNT(1),’N’) FROM TableName WITH (NOLOCK);
Alternate title: How do I tell how far I am on that command? This little command (frequently with a WHERE ... Continue reading
2024-01-05 (first published: 2023-12-26)
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Create failed for Availability Group
Ever since the release of Always On Availability Group (AG or HADR) in SQL Server 2012 the adoption ratio is increasing. A lots of my clients too are adopting...
2024-01-03 (first published: 2023-12-25)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Above Target Migrations
Recently I was working with Flyway Desktop (FWD) and practicing deploying certain migrations and not others. I don’t recommend this, but a customer was doing this and I wanted...
2023-12-22
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A New Word: the whipgraft delusion
whipgraft delusion – n. the phenomenon in which you catch your reflection in the mirror and get the sense that you’re peering into the eyes of a strange, as...
2023-12-22
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Creating a Scripts Folder in SQL Compare
While I was at a conference recently, someone asked me about the Scripts Folder feature in SQL Compare and how to set that up. This post just looks at...
2024-01-05 (first published: 2023-12-20)
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Hello Microsoft Entra ID, good bye Azure Active Directory
A couple of months ago where I work, a major product started undergoing a rebrand. I don’t pretend to understand marketing folks, but a change this big needed to...
2023-12-19
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Can you take a differential backup of master?
In one of the sessions I attended during the Pass Data Community Summit the speaker asked “If master is in ... Continue reading
2023-12-29 (first published: 2023-12-19)
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Using DATETRUNC–#SQLNewBlogger
I saw someone using DATETRUNC recently in some code and realized I hadn’t really looked at this function before. It’s one that was added in SQL Server 2022, though...
2023-12-29 (first published: 2023-12-18)
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Last Weeks Reading (2023-12-17)
📰 News What happened in the DAX world in 2022 New DAX functions… in 2022 The Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge Microsoft Ignite edition is back! How to build...
2023-12-18
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Friday Flyway Tips–Deploying Migrations with a Target
Recently I was working with Flyway Desktop (FWD) and helping a customer work on deploying part of their work. They weren’t sure how easy this could be, but this...
2023-12-27 (first published: 2023-12-15)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
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I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
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When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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SQL Server 2025 section missing?
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I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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