Your Name is Your Brand
Building your brand is not an overnight sensation. It does take a while and possibly a bit of luck here or there along the way. The one thing it...
2017-10-13
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Your Name is Your Brand
This topic is one that has been stewing for a while and finally this week it decided to boil over.
My...
2017-10-13
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Getting the Random Module in SQL Data Generator
This is a series on SQL Data Generator, covering some interesting scenarios I’ve run into. If you’ve never tried it,...
2017-10-12
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When Things Go Wrong in Azure
Things go wrong in IT, it is no different with the cloud. When I say cloud I am thinking quite...
2017-10-12
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What's new in SQL 2017
SQL Server 2017 became General Availability (GA) on 10/2, I've been sharing through the different social media channels the different features and enhancements included in this new version, however...
2017-10-11
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New Features in SSMS 17.3
SSMS 17.3
SSMS 17.3 was just released (download link), and it has a couple of new features worthy of mention:
Import Flat...
2017-10-20 (first published: 2017-10-11)
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WAITFOR isn’t a function–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-10-11
1,116 reads
Why is a value in DATETIME2 8 bytes, but in BINARY it is 9 bytes?
In the #sqlhelp Slack channel on the SQL Server Community Slack workspace last month, Jemma Hooper asked: When trying to...
2017-10-11
482 reads
Use cases of various products for a big data cloud solution
There are a tremendous amount of Microsoft products that are cloud-based for building big data solutions. It’s great that there...
2017-10-11
2,436 reads
Database Fundamentals #13: Data Entry Through T-SQL
T-SQL provides lots of functions that help to make data entry through T-SQL much more powerful. Over time you won’t...
2017-10-23 (first published: 2017-10-11)
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Blogs
T-SQLTuesday 204: Are blogs still relevant?
This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
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Switching Schemas I
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Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers