Reading a SharePoint List with Azure Logic App
Sometimes in life you have to do things you really don’t like to do. Such as extracting data from a SharePoint List. Usually I use SSIS and the OData...
2020-04-07
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T-SQL Tuesday #125 – Unit testing databases – we need to do this!!
Welcome to the first April edition of T-SQL Tuesday. I’m honoured to be hosting it and have picked a topic that is near and dear to me. If you...
2020-04-07
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T-SQL Tuesday Live–7 Apr 2020
Last week went a little crazy, and I learned something: don’t post a Zoom link on Twitter. My apologies to anyone that wanted to join and had things go...
2020-04-06
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Getting Your dbatools Version–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I was trying to test something recently and...
2020-04-06
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SQL Server and VMware Resource Pools
Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are available for use at the VMware host cluster layer. To better prioritize certain VMs over...
2020-04-06
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What Prevents You From Securing Your Servers?
Reading about how hackers are using SQL Server instances that are exposed on the internet AND have weak passwords to work into systems, I’m sitting here wondering why. I...
2020-04-06
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Daily Coping 6 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-06
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#PowershellBasics: Using environment variables ($env:ProgramFiles)
The other day Kendra Little (blog|twitter) mentioned that she was trying to get a command in Powershell working. Specifically one ... Continue reading
2020-04-13 (first published: 2020-04-06)
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Learning Postgres:Installation
I had the opportunity of working on a project converting a postgres database to a sql server based one at work. I used this opportunity to learn more of...
2020-04-13 (first published: 2020-04-06)
324 reads
Transforming JSON data with the help of Azure Data Factory - Part 3
(2020-Apr-06) Traditionally I would use data flows in Azure Data Factory (ADF) to flatten (transform) incoming JSON data for further processing. Recently I've found a very simple but very effective...
2020-04-14 (first published: 2020-04-06)
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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