Daily Coping 13 Aug 2021
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...
2021-08-13
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Get the month end dates of last N years
Here is a simple T-SQL script that may come handy if you need the month end dates of last N years. N is the number of years. The output...
2021-09-03 (first published: 2021-08-13)
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Get the month end dates of last N months
Here is a simple T-SQL script that may come handy if you need the month end dates of last N months. N is the number of months. The output...
2021-08-13
1,186 reads
Azure Purview Best Practice: Naming your scans
If you’ve ever been a DBA and seen the mess that you get with SQL Agent Jobs without a clean naming standard for your job schedules and job names...
2021-09-06 (first published: 2021-08-13)
331 reads
Azure SQL Managed Instances
After many years working with different “flavours” of SQL server in Azure from its true PaaS form to SQL server in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) it’s time to look...
2021-08-12
198 reads
Daily Coping 12 Aug 2021
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...
2021-08-12
40 reads
Work requests: It’s broke. Fix it.
Many years ago I was given a work request that literally just said: It’s broke. Fix it. I’m sure you ... Continue reading
2021-09-03 (first published: 2021-08-12)
433 reads
Using PyApacheAtlas to import SQL Server extended properties to Azure Purview
Azure Purview is a compliance and data governance platform in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The platform is currently in public preview and has quite a few features; but, does not...
2021-09-01 (first published: 2021-08-11)
416 reads
More Interactive Notebooks from MS Docs
I saw a note from Microsoft recently that they are trying to improve some of the support experiences for customers that are going through their docs. The idea is...
2021-08-30 (first published: 2021-08-11)
441 reads
Last Non-NULL Date in SQL Server
The simplest of requests are often the most difficult to execute. For example, a finance team needs to know every time a customer did not invoice for 90 days...
2021-08-11
6 reads
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The Book of Redgate: Evidence
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Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
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Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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