Passed a CosmosDB Exam
I took the beta exam for Cosmos DB a few months back. I did this as part of the MVP program, as they were asking people to evaluate the...
2022-03-30
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On bias
Last week saw the second month of my employment at Microsoft. I admit that I’m enjoying my job, and I can’t deny that the reduced amount of time I’ve...
2022-03-30
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Daily Coping 30 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...
2022-03-30
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Daily Coping 29 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...
2022-03-29
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Book Review – Azure Data Factory by Example
I just finished the book Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers by Richard Swinbank. The book was not exactly what I was expecting, but that’s...
2022-03-29
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Azure AD Automatic Provisioning for Snowflake
Azure AD application provisioning refers to automatically creating user identities, groups and roles in the applications that users need access to for accounts created in(more...)
The post Azure AD Automatic...
2022-03-29
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Quick Tip: Remove CONVERTCAST from your WHEREJOIN clauses
Quick Tip Remove CONVERT/CAST from your WHERE clauses and JOINS when comparing to variables of different data types. Set their data types to match your table definitions before using...
2022-04-08 (first published: 2022-03-28)
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Starting LocalDB–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Lots of people have never worked with LocalDB,...
2022-04-01 (first published: 2022-03-28)
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Daily Coping 28 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...
2022-03-28
23 reads
Parsing JSON in SQL Server with OPENJSON
Recently I had a piece of JSON of which I needed to extract data from to put into a table in Azure SQL DB. Unfortunately, the structure of the...
2022-03-28
99 reads
Blogs
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
Forums
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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