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I have been developing software from my early teens and stayed with technology after leaving school. Initially focussing on software development, networking and IT support type roles, I found...

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Attacking the Weakest Link

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When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...

Webinar – Microsoft Fabric for Dummies

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On Wednesday May 15th 2024 I will give a free webinar on MSSQLTips.com about...

Migrate datetime data to datetimeoffset with AT TIME ZONE

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I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...

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Looking for a Recommended Azure SQL Managed Instance Book

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Can anyone recommend an Azure SQL Managed Instance book? I'm looking for information about...

timeout in vs for ssas tabular deploy is 0 but i still timeout deploying

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hi we run 2019 std but i'm testing this on 2016.   following some old...

Table variable declared within cursor persists across loop iterations

By Steve Collins

If you run this code it creates a 2 row cursor loop.  Within the...

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Question of the Day

The Backup File Extension

I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file?

BACKUP DATABASE HerdofTwo TO DISK = 'HerdOfTwo_20240501'

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