You know everything about GROUP BY. Do you?

SQL is a stout language and SQL Server has so many features that it’s impossible to be an expert in...

Day 25 Optimization

Locking is depends upon Isolation level and Storage Engine. MySQL uses table level locking (instead of page, row, or column...

Techorama 2018 Session Materials

Techorama 2018 is over, sadly enough. It was a great conference: lots of awesome speakers and sessions and very nicely...

Fix For Using Azure Active Directory and DacFX

Update:
Refer to this post instead
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One of the things I feel strongly about is that a build/release pipeline needs to be as complete as possible - that is all configuration...

Day 24 Replication Setup

Today we will discuss how setup a replication: Master – Slave Replication: Requirement: 2 (Linux) System (MasterServer and SlaveServer) MySQL Installed...

Query Predicates

Sometimes people speak “SQL” and expect you know all the terminology. In recent a conversation about query plans I was...

One Week to Music City Tech

Next week is Music City Tech, a three day conference consisting of Coding, Agile, and Data tracks, takes place in...

Power BI and Data Security – Audit Logs, Powershell, Power BI and @AngryAnalytics

The following has been reposted with permission from Steve Howard a.k.a. @AngryAnalytics. I have made some formatting changes but the...

Convert a Positive Number To a Negative In SQL With a Spot of Bitwise Logic

Now this is something that I’ve seen asked a few times and it’s always a question that gets a fair...

Toolbox - How Long Has My Server Been Up?

https://imgflip.com/i/2axp6yNo..not that Up (although it is awesome!)

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As a remote service provider a common request is to follow up after a server...