Save Money On Your Azure Monthly SQL Database Bill
Microsoft gives you two purchasing models for your Azure SQL Databases (SQL DB), a DTU and a vCore based model...
2018-09-05 (first published: 2018-08-22)
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SQLEspresso
Contained Database – No more need for Server Level Logins
Starting in SQL Server 2012 and in Azure SQL Database, Microsoft introduced the concept of a contained database. A contained...
2018-07-11 (first published: 2018-07-05)
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Congrats to DCAC Staff on MVP Renewals
July 1st is a day all Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) wait patiently at their computers hitting F5 over and...
2018-07-02
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Replication Max Text Length
Ever seen the below error? Until this week I hadn’t. So, I figured I’d take a little time and introduce...
2018-06-28 (first published: 2018-06-20)
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Respectfully Responding
I typically don’t write opinion posts, but given recent events I thought it was important to follow up on one of my tweets....
2018-06-29 (first published: 2018-06-14)
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How to get started with Always Encrypted for Beginners Part 4: Change is Coming
A few weeks ago, I wrote Part 1, 2 and 3 of this series, which was a beginner’s guide to Always Encrypted. In part...
2018-06-25 (first published: 2018-06-13)
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Importance of Statistics
Following up on my last post about the Cardinality Estimator let’s talk about column statistics and how they work and...
2018-05-30
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Query Predicates
Sometimes people speak “SQL” and expect you know all the terminology. In recent a conversation about query plans I was...
2018-05-24
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5 Ways to Examine Cardinality Metrics
In SQL Server the query optimizer uses a cardinality estimator to answer data SELECTIVITY questions like the ones below. The...
2018-05-02
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Live, Learn, and Grow
Ever look back at old work and wonder what was I thinking when I did that? Or even better you...
2018-04-25
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Blogs
Catching Up On SQLOrlando
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Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
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I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
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Encoding NULL
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Question of the Day
Encoding NULL
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)See possible answers