End an ALTER DATABASE immediately if anyone is in the database.
The development team has told me they’ve shut down the application, there are no more connections and I can go ... Continue reading
2020-06-30 (first published: 2020-06-11)
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New Management Hub in Azure Data Factory
I wanted to manually start an Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime in ADF, so I went to the edit section and then to connections. But instead of showing me my linked...
2020-06-25 (first published: 2020-06-11)
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Webcast – Principles of Data Modeling
Tomorrow, June 11, 2020, at 3 PM Eastern I’m giving a webcast on the Principles of Data Modeling. Sign up link: https://www.mssqltips.com/sql-server-webcast-signup/?id=822 Here’s what we’ll be covering: You’ve been...
2020-06-10
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Next week is EightKB–The SQL Server Internals Conference
Next week, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the EightKB conference takes place. As with other events, it’s online, and it is full of high level content. It looks to...
2020-06-10
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How SQL Server stores data types: floating points
In this post we are looking at how SQL Server stores floating point values (FLOAT and REAL). If you’d like to read the previous posts in this series of...
2020-06-10
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Remote communication for fun and profit! – a MinionWare snippet
We’re a large household with a small business, and we find ourselves with an interesting mix of tools for chat, screen sharing, and video conferencing. Here are our favorites!
The...
2020-06-10
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Remote communication for fun and profit! – a MinionWare snippet
We’re a large household with a small business, and we find ourselves with an interesting mix of tools for chat, screen sharing, and video conferencing. Here are our favorites!
The...
2020-06-10
13 reads
Daily Coping 10 June 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-06-10
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Creating a Repository from VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger
I’ve been working with a few different git clients, and trying to write some articles to help people get started. As I do this, I thought it was interesting...
2020-06-25 (first published: 2020-06-10)
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Azure Monitor and Azure SQL Database
This is all about enabling diagnostics telemetry for Azure SQL databases. For Azure SQL Database there are quite a few options to select from. Below shows the diagnostic settings...
2020-06-10
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Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
Forums
Return all intermediate members of a recursive CTE?
I wrote a recursive CTE to determine employee levels... but what if I wanted...
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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