How Do Azure Accounts and Subscriptions Work Together?
Azure accounts vs. Azure subscriptions – often a topic that brings some confusion to Azure newbies. Are they the same? What’s...
2018-08-28
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Upcoming Performance Tuning Webcast
On September 13, 2018, at 3 PM Eastern (USA), I’ll be giving a webcast for MSSQLTips.com on finding and correcting...
2018-08-28
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Redgate Lives DevOps
At Redgate, we release a lot of changes to our products. In fact, this is the “About Redgate” slide I’ve...
2018-08-28
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Generating a Constrained Random Date–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-08-28
1,231 reads
Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the “first value in an...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week's video on YouTube
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the "first value in an ordered set of values."
The problem is that if that...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week's video on YouTube
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the "first value in an ordered set of values."
The problem is that if that...
2018-08-28
18 reads
Undercover Catalogue 0.1 Released
Easily Keep Track of All Your SQL Servers
We know what it’s like when you’ve got 101 SQL Servers to manage,...
2018-08-28
289 reads
More on Two Posts About PASS
Yesterday I linked to two really interesting posts about PASS and I hope you read them. I’ll start with a...
2018-08-28
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Deleting Azure SQL DB
So you want to do a clean-up exercise in Azure and remove some databases. You go to delete a database...
2018-08-28
246 reads
Blogs
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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