SQL Homework – June 2020 – DML Triggers
Triggers. Blech. Triggers are a really really cool feature of SQL Server, that are continuously misused and cause all kinds ... Continue reading
2020-06-18 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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Backup your SQL instances configurations to GIT with dbatools – Part 2 – Add parallelism
We have seen how we can export and save the results to a folder and commit them to a GIT repository on my last blog post Backup your SQL...
2020-06-22 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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Data Visualization, Context, and Domain Expertise
I recently posted a graph to twitter and asked people to explain it. Let’s look at the graph. The graph is from Fitbit. It shows the number of steps...
2020-06-18 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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2020-06-04
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Approaches to running Databricks ETL code from Azure ADF
Databricks is fantastic, but there is a small issue with how people use it. The problem is that Databricks is all things to all people. Data scientists and data...
2020-06-03
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Approaches to running Databricks ETL code from Azure ADF
Databricks is fantastic, but there is a small issue with how people use it. The problem is that Databricks is all things to all people. Data scientists and data...
2020-06-03
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Creating a New Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger
I wrote about sequences in an editorial recently and decided to start using them. Creating one turned out to be surprisingly easy. I had a table I’d been logging...
2020-06-19 (first published: 2020-06-03)
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An All Star Lineup for EightKB
An online conference is coming on June 17, 2020 that is full of high level content. It’s the type of event that I think contains information relatively few people...
2020-06-03
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How should I store currency values in SQL Server?
On Twitter, Michael Dyrynda writes: ?? Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever...
2020-06-03
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What happens if your SQL Server editions are out of support? – a MinionWare snippet
The more your SQL Server is out of date, the more things become vulnerable, broken and unfixable, limited in features, and expensive.
The post What happens if your SQL Server...
2020-06-03
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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
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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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