A Busy Summit
I’m only at the PASS Summit for two days, but they will be busy. If you’re at the event and...
2018-11-07
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Cannot Use the Special Principal – Back to Basics
Cannot use the special principal 'dbo'. This error message can be misleading. This article will take you on a journey of common mis-steps along with the appropriate fix for...
2018-11-07
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Cannot Use the Special Principal – Back to Basics
I recently had a client call me out of the blue because he happened to be getting an error while...
2018-11-21 (first published: 2018-11-07)
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A Health Check can keep your SQL database in great shape
Modern businesses are data-driven. Many business leaders will tell you it is the “lifeblood” of their company. Good data helps us provide outstanding service to our customers, identify potential...
2018-11-07
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A Health Check can keep your SQL database in great shape
Modern businesses are data-driven. Many business leaders will tell you it is the “lifeblood” of their company. Good data helps...
2018-11-07
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Missing those we’ve lost
It’s the start of Summit for many of us (not me, sorry) and it seemed like a good time to...
2018-11-07
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Azure SQL Database – Aborting Scale Request
Scaling up or down an Azure SQL Database is a very common task. Whilst common it is also very easy...
2018-11-07
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SQL Relay became Data Relay 2018
It was very long and hard-working week (8.10-12.10). I was with my data-geek #SQLfamily and friends at the (SQL) Data...
2018-11-07
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No Speaker? No Problem! Host a non-traditional User Group meeting
Was honored to speak to fellow User Group leaders at the PASS Summit User Group leader meeting on Tuesday. Here's detail and links to some of the things I...
2018-11-07
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Exporting configuration data from SQL Sentry
SQL Sentry is a pretty cool monitoring system but there's a downside to having so many knobs to turn:
it's next...
2018-11-07
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers