SQLSaturday Baton Rouge thank yous
Hello everyone who was at #SQLSatBR this year!We had a huge early morning wave of attendees this morning that inundated our sponsors just like a cooling rain inundated us in...
2018-08-12
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Database Protection in the Cloud Era
The Cloud is a fun and exciting place to be. Exciting as it may be, even in the cloud, protection...
2018-08-10
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Money Ball: Fantasy Football Kicks Off Tonight - Jeff's Degenerates
You might think that this blog post is out of place here but I'm hoping use some of the data...
2018-08-10
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Taking the Linux plunge – Update
It’s been a couple of weeks now since I took the plunge and bought myself a Dell XPS 13 running...
2018-08-10
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SQLCLR vs SQL Server 2017, Part 8: Is SQLCLR Deprecated in Favor of Python or R (sp_execute_external_script)?
(last updated: 2019-01-10 @ 18:00 EST / 2019-01-10 @ 23:00 UTC )
With the additional (and annoying) configuration step required to get SQLCLR Assemblies...
2018-08-27 (first published: 2018-08-09)
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ISACA Class: Auditing SQL Server in Every Way Possible
At this year’s TechnoSecurity and Digital Forensics Conference I gave a 1 hour presentation on auditing SQL Server. There were...
2018-08-09
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Granting CONTROL on a database–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-08-20 (first published: 2018-08-09)
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Determine SQL Server Network Protocol Information using T-SQL and DMVs
I have recently started as an author for MSSQLTips.com website, this is an excellent site where you can start writing...
2018-08-09
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SQL Server Encryption, What’s The Key Hierarchy All About?
I’m sure that we all know that SQL Server includes all sorts of interesting functionality to allow us to encrypt...
2018-08-27 (first published: 2018-08-09)
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NTFS Compression and SQL Server Do Not Play Well Together
Wanted to be proactive and move a database that was in the default path on C: to a secondary drive as it was growing pretty heavily.
What I didn’t realize...
2018-08-08
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers