Customer Satisfaction Survey Results
In the last couple of months, we sent our first customer satisfaction survey to all our customers. We collected the...
2017-11-18
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What is the Role of the UPDATE Lock in SQL Server?
The most common types of locks in SQL Server are the SHARED (S) lock and the EXCLUSIVE (X) lock. The...
2017-11-18
1,411 reads
One Line of Code Is All It Takes
This tweet showed up in the dbatools Slack channel Friday afternoon.
Just did my first Pull Request to "contribute" to @psdbatools. Granted, the code change was a single line of...
2017-11-18
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One More Trip and Down for the Count
The last month has been a rough one for me, with lots of travel. I was on trips for 4...
2017-11-17
1,010 reads
New Session: Data Types Do Matter
I started speaking on a semi-regular basis this year after many years of trepidation. You can read about my first...
2017-11-17
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Geek Sync Recording: Taking Control of Your SQL Server Sprawl
Back in July, I gave a webcast for Idera’s Geek Sync. They’ve published the recording. You can find it here:
Take...
2017-11-17
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Incorrect Syntax – What?
Intuitive errors are very helpful when trying to troubleshoot a problem. On the other hand, when we receive an error that is vague, we sometimes find ourselves wanting to...
2017-11-17
42 reads
Incorrect Syntax – What?
Intuitive errors are very helpful when trying to troubleshoot a problem. On the other hand, when we receive an error...
2017-11-17
336 reads
Training Day in London: Building Better SSIS Packages
I am delighted to announce that I’ll be delivering my full-day course, Building Better SSIS Packages, at the SQLBits conference...
2017-11-17
367 reads
SOS - Save Our Souls or SQL Operations Manager
On Wednesday Microsoft Announced the release in preview of SQL Operations Studio (SOS)... What is that I hear you cry!...
2017-11-17
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers