Connecting to an Azure SQL Database
Are you starting to experiment with Azure SQL Databases? Is your company interested in moving to the Cloud and asking you to investigate different options? This blog will show...
2022-01-08
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Bulk Insert – Insights That Will Make You Drool
Bulk insert can be an extremely helpful tool to help ingest data into SQL Server efficiently. Sometimes, it is necessary to capture metrics in regards to the bulk insert...
2022-01-24 (first published: 2022-01-07)
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Daily Coping 7 Jan 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-01-07
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Running Powershell code in Vim
I’ve been mucking about with Vim a bit recently and recently found myself (for reasons unknown tbh) writing powershell scripts in it. Once I’d written a script, I would...
2022-01-26 (first published: 2022-01-07)
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What permissions are required for temporary tables?
Managing permissions is a constant issue for Database Administrators, but rarely do DBAs consider permissions for tempdb. Everybody’s looking for something, but how often do you get requests for...
2022-01-19 (first published: 2022-01-06)
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Daily Coping 6 Jan 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-01-06
27 reads
Looking at Activity Queue Times from Azure Data Factory with Log Analytics
I’ve been working on a project to populate an Operational Data Store using Azure Data Factory (ADF). We have been seeking to tune our pipelines so we can import...
2022-01-17 (first published: 2022-01-06)
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Finding the First Day of the Year–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. While working on the question from Monday, I...
2022-01-19 (first published: 2022-01-05)
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One year later: my look back on the PASS organization
My good friend and talented singer Rob Volk reminded me recently that I had promised to write about my involvement with PASS at the end of its life, and I...
2022-01-05
35 reads
Daily Coping 5 Jan 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-01-05
31 reads
Blogs
The New Unified Copilot in Fabric and Project Osmos: From AI Assistance to Agentic Data Engineering
By James Serra
(This post starts a three-part series on how AI is changing the way we...
SQL Server Problems You Can Reproduce, Measure and Fix: A Free Demo Library
I built a free library of runnable SQL Server demos. Each reproduces a real...
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Forums
Managed Instance vs Azure Database - is this a good option?
We're currently in Azure, however as we had a very tight migration timeline when...
MERGE in a nested TRY/CATCH won't roll back
I have a section of code similar to the following abstract: DECLARE @loop [int]...
Perfermance result aftet purge operatio
Hello everyone, I am planning to implement a data purging solution that is expected...
Question of the Day
SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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