DirectQuery to Power BI Datasets
A new feature has been added to the Power BI Desktop toolset and it’s a very nice one. The official name is “DirectQuery for PBI datasets and AS”. It...
2022-02-25
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s5cmd Authentication Using Enviroment Variables
At work, I get to work with some fantastic tech that pushes the boundaries of performance. I needed to do some performance testing from a Windows server into a...
2022-03-16 (first published: 2022-02-24)
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T-SQL Tuesday #147 Wrap-Up
I was the host this month for T-SQL Tuesday #147 and here is a look at the people who blogged (that I know about). If I’ve missed anyone, let...
2022-02-24
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I’m writing a SQL Server security presentation and I need your help.
I’m working on a new presentation titled Watch Ken solve security headaches in SQL Server. In this presentation I’m going ... Continue reading
2022-02-24
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I’m writing a SQL Server security presentation and I need your help.
I’m working on a new presentation titled Watch Ken solve security headaches in SQL Server. In this presentation I’m going ... Continue reading
2022-03-14 (first published: 2022-02-24)
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Daily Coping 24 Feb 2022
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...
2022-02-24
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Recipe 3: Merging and manipulating events
Welcome to the third recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-11 (first published: 2022-02-24)
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Power BI Learning Opportunity at SQLBits
If you’ve been thinking about learning Power BI, I have a wonderful opportunity for you. I will be presenting, along with my friend and colleague Michael Johnson (Blog |...
2022-02-24
32 reads
Azure Redundancy for Storage
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-03-11 (first published: 2022-02-23)
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The denial-of-service attack is coming from inside the house
A short post this week. While I was helping some friends recently, we experienced a curious thing where as soon as an application was started up, it was immediately...
2022-02-23
48 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Problems You Can Reproduce, Measure and Fix: A Free Demo Library
I built a free library of runnable SQL Server demos. Each reproduces a real...
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
Forums
MERGE in a nested TRY/CATCH won't roll back
I have a section of code similar to the following abstract: DECLARE @loop [int]...
Perfermance result aftet purge operatio
Hello everyone, I am planning to implement a data purging solution that is expected...
SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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