Padding a string in SQL Server
I’ve been working on converting a piece of DB2 code into T-SQL and one of the functions I had to ... Continue reading
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
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Azure Platform Series – renaming your YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps
This blog post is about YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps. I had a repo called InfrastructureAsCode for a client. I have been transitioning them to use YAML for their...
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
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Getting Row Numbers with Window Functions–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. In a recent post, I started looking at...
2021-07-14
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Accessibility after the fact: closed captions for videos
My user group, the Calgary Data User Group, has been recording videos since April of this year, so at the time of this writing we have just two videos...
2021-07-14
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Daily Coping 14 Jul 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...
2021-07-14
18 reads
Add Azure Cache for Redis to Your Azure SQL Performance Tuning Toolbox
One of the biggest impacts on resource consumption for Azure SQL DB are repeated data pulls by the application layer. No matter how fast those queries execute calling the...
2021-07-14
56 reads
Add Azure Cache for Redis to Your Azure SQL Performance Tuning Toolbox
One of the biggest impacts on resource consumption for Azure SQL DB are repeated data pulls by the application layer. No matter how fast those queries execute calling the...
2021-07-14
97 reads
Using GitHub Actions to build packer AMI on AWS
GitHub Actions is a very cool tool for automating CI/CD pipeline workflows or any routine task. Once the code resides in Github, automating tasks from using Github actions is...
2021-08-04 (first published: 2021-07-13)
168 reads
Quickly Identify Configuration Drift In Your Environment
As you sit and wonder about when the next Star Wars movie is going to come out, do you ever get the thought of “I wonder if all my...
2021-08-04 (first published: 2021-07-13)
406 reads
Build a Blogging Habit with Reminders in Your WordPress App
Meet your posting goals on your site with this new feature in the iOS and Android apps.
2021-07-13
36 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
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....
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The New World Of AI Robots
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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...
Execute as failure
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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