Decryption and CASTing
In my last encryption post I showed how to encrypt and decrypt data with a symmetric key. However there was...
2012-07-11 (first published: 2012-07-03)
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SSIS SCD vs MERGE Statement – Performance Comparison
I wouldn’t class myself as an expert in SSIS but I certainly know my way around but came across something...
2012-07-03
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (July 2012)
Here is the latest version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements to...
2012-07-03
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Speaker Selection for SQLSaturday Orlando-Group #4
Ten speakers selected, and as we go into the July 4th holiday we’re going to add two more to that...
2012-07-03
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SQL Server Auditing – Getting started
In my organization, one of my jobs is auditing our database environment. I’ve been tasked with this responsibility for several...
2012-07-03
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July 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
The year is half over and for many of us, specifically those in the United States, it’s a tricky week...
2012-07-03
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Lunch is for Wimps
A real life DBA tale from the trenches with some awesome advice. That’s what one reader chose to share with...
2012-07-03
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SQL Server Get Identity after Insert using SP
I thought I will share my experience how you can get identity value after insert using SQL Server. I have...
2012-07-03
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RSS pubDate format in SQL Server
Today I had to write T-SQL code to convert date into very specific date format (Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:24:05...
2012-07-02
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Colorado Wildfires
More than a few people have asked how I’m doing with all the fires in Colorado, so I wanted to...
2012-07-02
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Forums
Two queries work until compared with EXCEPT statement
I've got multiple databases on 2 SQL 2019 CU32 servers , all using the...
STRING_AGG DISTINCT
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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