Thinking about Setup and Installation

I’m working the first section of a basic administration course, and the first part of this is installing SQL Server...

Toolbox - Exporting SSMS Results to Excel

I was working on another post when I found myself needing to dump out query results to a grid format...

SQL Server Data Pages on Linux

One of the new phrases coming out of Microsoft is that “SQL is just SQL” regardless of what operating system...

Webinar: Change Detection in SQL Server

Change detection is a critical component of any system that moves data from one structure to another. Most data movement mechanisms are designed to move a subset of the...

Webinar: Change Detection in SQL Server

Change detection is a critical component of any system that moves data from one structure to another. Most data movement...

Using docker named volumes to persist databases in SQL Server

I’ve previously talked about using named volumes to persist SQL Server databases but in that post I only used one...

Power BI Now Has Keyboard Accessible Visual Interactions

The March 2019 release of Power BI Desktop has brought us keyboard accessible visual interactions. One of Power BI’s natural...

Microsoft Azure – How to create the Azure Active Directory (AD) using Azure Portal

Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) is a cloud based service to handle the identity and access management. It has the...

Uppercase All String Columns (and in a Single Query!)

(last updated: 2019-03-21 @ 15:00 EST / 2019-03-21 @ 19:00 UTC )

Intro
The other day, Steve Jones published a short post with a quick...

Two Weeks to #sqlinthecity Streamed

It’s just two weeks until the SQL in the City Streamed starts up again in 2019. I’m ready to travel...