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 adding my responses for each day here. Today's tip is to add the word "yet" when you feel you can't do something. This is good advice because […]
2020-11-10
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I’m in learning mode this week, scheduled for two full day pre-cons plus the Summit. I’ve been to a couple of virtual events already this year, but they were...
2020-11-09
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I was watching the GroupBy talk the other day and noticed that Cláudio Silva was using arrays, or what appeared to be arrays, in his talk. That was an...
2020-11-18 (first published: 2020-11-09)
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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...
2020-11-09
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I can’t remember where I saw this, but it made an interesting Question of the Day: select * from Sales where Profit !< 10000; I had never seen anything...
2020-11-09
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If you have been following me or generally topics around Azure SQL Database and security you would know that it is important to leverage Advanced Data Security (ADS) for...
2020-11-09
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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 adding my responses for each day here. Today's tip is to plan a new activity or idea you want to try out this week. At least a […]
2020-11-09
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Introduction SQL Server deadlock one of the issues that can be happened in any SQL Server, today in this article I will not explain what is Deadlock and How...
2020-11-08
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Introduction SQL Server deadlock one of the issues that can be happened in any SQL Server, today in this article I will not explain what is Deadlock and How...
2020-11-18 (first published: 2020-11-08)
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2020-11-08
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A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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