Azure Training in London
I am very excited about my upcoming IEAzure class being held in London, September 10th and 11th at the Marriott in Kensington (London).
This...
2018-08-08
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A Day in the Life (1/?) - August 7, 2018
This is my first installment in (I hope) a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog|twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I decided to jot down most of what I did through the...
2018-08-08
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NTFS Compression and SQL Server Do Not Play Well Together
Wanted to be proactive and move a database that was in the default path on C: to a secondary drive as it was growing pretty heavily.
What I didn’t realize...
2018-08-08
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 114 – Overview by CloudScope)
In this module you will learn how to use the Overview by CloudScope. The Overview by CloudScope show a list...
2018-08-21 (first published: 2018-08-07)
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Enable SQLCMD Mode on SSMS
I really like Microsoft philosophy nowadays, they are putting a lot of time developing good open source tools like SQLCLI,...
2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-08-07)
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T-SQL Tuesday #105 Invitation: Brick Wall
It’s time for another T-SQL Tuesday. The brainchild of Adam Machanic (b|l|t), and designed to strengthen the SQL Server blogging...
2018-08-07
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2018-08-07
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Identifying records with special characters (Unicode)
Occasionally Data analyst may fall in a situation, where they need to identify records holding special characters or only the...
2018-08-24 (first published: 2018-08-07)
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Generate Script in SQL Server With 6 Simple Steps
“I am a new user of SQL Server so I have very limited knowledge of its features. I would like to know how to generate script with data of...
2018-08-07
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Generate Script in SQL Server With 6 Simple Steps
“I am a new user of SQL Server so I have very limited knowledge of its features. I would like...
2018-08-07
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Forums
Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
Hi everyone, I'm hoping some of the longtime SQL Server professionals here might be...
Checking the Error Log II
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Parameter Sniffing on SQL Server 2025: A Walkthrough with Real Numbers
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Checking the Error Log II
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