Automation starts by doing something once, very very carefully: T-SQL Tuesday #110
After a while the intros for my T-SQL Tuesday posts get a little boring. So without any further ado, it’s...
2019-01-08
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SQLStudies
SQL Homework – January 2019 – Baselines
Happy New Year! Every year for New Years we all make a big deal of coming up with New Years...
2019-01-02
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Using Microsoft Learn
I’ve just signed up on Microsoft’s new learning opportunity Microsoft Learn. The main categories are Azure, Business Apps, and Windows...
2018-12-31
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Identity in a SELECT
Always be learning right? So when I saw this I had to go HU?! That’s new. What’s going on here?
SELECT
IDENTITY(INT,...
2019-01-02 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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Savings changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created.
Microsoft does a lot of things to try to help us not shoot ourselves in the foot. This little error...
2018-12-17
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Bulk insert and an identity column
TL;DR; BULK INSERT doesn’t have an easy way to specify a column list so the columns in the insert file...
2018-12-12
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Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds
We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016...
2018-12-10
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UDL files and connection strings
A co-worker showed me a really neat trick the other day. We deal with a lot of connection problems and...
2018-12-05
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SQL Homework – December 2018 – Configure SSMS
I’ve committed to posting a piece of homework for you to do each month. I post at the beginning of...
2018-12-03
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Oh Query, Query, Query
I thought I would post this a bit early so everyone can memorize the words before Hanukka starts next week.
I...
2018-12-18 (first published: 2018-11-28)
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Blogs
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The Long Name
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?