Daily Coping 3 Mar 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...
2022-03-04
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Redgate at SQLBits
Redgate and the Advocates are attending SQL Bits next week in London. I’m excited to see Grant and Kathi in person, as it’s been far too long since I...
2022-03-03
68 reads
Saving your requests
The other day a friend of mine mentioned that they were questioned on one of the scripts they ran recently ... Continue reading
2022-03-03
25 reads
Saving your requests
The other day a friend of mine mentioned that they were questioned on one of the scripts they ran recently ... Continue reading
2022-03-03
288 reads
Recipe 9: Capturing Queries and Plans
Welcome to a new recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-03
286 reads
Using curl to Automate Multipage Logins
Watch this week's video on YouTube
I like solving the daily New York Times crossword on paper. However, logging in to download the PDF every day and printing it is...
2022-03-03
14 reads
Using curl to Automate Multipage Logins
Watch this week's video on YouTube
I like solving the daily New York Times crossword on paper. However, logging in to download the PDF every day and printing it is...
2022-03-03
16 reads
MySQL server Query Store
The query store, sounds familiar? The idea of the black box sitting within the database server watching what is going on within the environment. This is available within MySQL,...
2022-03-03
159 reads
Traveling to SQL Bits
I’m heading to SQL Bits this weekend, and will be in London most of next week for the conference. I’m excited. SQL Bits is my favorite conference, as I’ve...
2022-03-02
27 reads
Data Analysis Techniques
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-03-02
118 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Forums
Two queries work until compared with EXCEPT statement
I've got multiple databases on 2 SQL 2019 CU32 servers , all using the...
STRING_AGG DISTINCT
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers