Daily Coping 21 Jan 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...
2021-01-21
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It’s 2021, so why are you reading this?
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re straight, white, male, and English-speaking. There’s also a high likelihood that you live in the United States. The technology industry...
2021-01-20
46 reads
Daily Coping 20 Jan 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...
2021-01-20
28 reads
[Coping] Hidden Wounds
Through high school and college, I carried deep wounds due to what was going on at home. Only a handful of people outside of my family knew what what...
2021-01-29 (first published: 2021-01-20)
428 reads
Logical crossroads in Azure Data Factory (IF and Filter operations)
(2021-Jan-19) I was raised listening and reading fairy tales where the main character would reach a crossroad with a large stone that had some directions written on it – turn...
2021-01-26 (first published: 2021-01-19)
237 reads
Storage Tiers What SQL Server DBAs Need to Know
“One Gerbil, Two Gerbils or Three Gerbils?” is a common DBA joke about server and storage performance. No matter how many gerbils power your storage, you need to know...
2021-01-19
14 reads
Storage Tiers What SQL Server DBAs Need to Know
“One Gerbil, Two Gerbils or Three Gerbils?” is a common DBA joke about server and storage performance. No matter how many gerbils power your storage, you need to know...
2021-03-25 (first published: 2021-01-19)
588 reads
Storage Tiers What SQL Server DBAs Need to Know
“One Gerbil, Two Gerbils or Three Gerbils?” is a common DBA joke about server and storage performance. No matter how many gerbils power your storage, you need to know...
2021-01-27 (first published: 2021-01-19)
1,198 reads
Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 3 - CTE()
The next example is how to do a CTE (Common Table Expression). When creating the CTE I will also rename one of the columns from “dataType” to “x”.
T-SQL WITH...
2021-01-19
17 reads
Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 3 - CTE()
The next example is how to do a CTE (Common Table Expression). When creating the CTE I will also rename one of the columns from “dataType” to “x”.
T-SQL WITH...
2021-01-19
81 reads
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SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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