Visual Studio 2017 Irritants From the SSIS Developer View
I was among the many Integration Services (SSIS)/Database (DB) developers out there that cheered when Microsoft finally announced support for...
2017-10-05
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Compound FKs with SQL Data Generator
This is a series on SQL Data Generator, covering some interesting scenarios I’ve run into. If you’ve never tried it,...
2017-10-05
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How Far Has My Update Got? Finding Out How Many Rows Your Long Running Insert, Update or Delete Has Actually Modified So Far
I’m pretty sure that we’ve all found ourselves in the situation where we’ve run an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE script...
2017-10-05
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Ebook: Putting Your Head in the Cloud: An Introduction to Cloud Computing and Azure SQL Database
David is delivering his Microsoft Azure for the SQL DBA talk this weekend in SQL Saturday Denmark. Go and see...
2017-10-05
505 reads
Toolbox - Fix Your FILEGROWTH
One of the items we usually flag in reports is FILEGROWTH by percentage. It doesn't help that for most versions...
2017-10-10 (first published: 2017-10-05)
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dbatools Badge Ribbons at PASS Summit
One of the (many) fun things to do at PASS Summit is to check out the ribbons people have attached to their badges. Some are witty or goofy, others...
2017-10-05
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Enabling Database Containment for an Instance – #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-10-04
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Changes to Service Packs and Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2017
For a few years now, Microsoft has augmented its irregular release of Service Packs with a more frequent Cumulative Update...
2017-10-04
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The Alpha and the Omega. The BEGIN and the END.
The BEGIN/END block is a fairly standard thing if you’ve ever done any coding, but it never hurts to do...
2017-10-04
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Azure SQL Database Data Integrity Checks
If you remember last month I wrote about DBCC CHECKDB and Azure SQL Database, more specifically whose responsibility (Microsoft’s) it...
2017-10-04
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Blogs
Learning Tool – Deepstash
By Brian Kelley
A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key...
New article – migrating from a named instance
By Brian Kelley
Do you have a case where you have a named instance you'd like to...
Cleaning Up My Blog's SEO and AEO with Claude in GitHub Copilot
I’ve been running this blog on Hugo for a long time, and like most...
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RegEx Functions I
Which of these RegEx functions need compatibility level 170 in SQL Server 2025?
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