What is (local)?
When connecting to a SQL Server instance sometimes you’ll see (local), localhost or even just a single period (hard to ... Continue reading
2020-05-12 (first published: 2020-04-27)
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TIL: Backup-DbaDatabase
(This post comes from one of our Junior DBAs – @SQLDork) I’m learning how to use dbatools. Today’s command: Backup-DbaDatabase I’m using the 64-bit PowerShell ISE (running as administrator),...
2021-04-26 (first published: 2020-04-27)
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Explain RDBMS and History of SQL Server?
RDBMS means Relations Database Management System. RDBMS is one of the DBMS types where data is stored in 2 dimension structures called “Table”. RDBMS stores data in table format...
2020-04-27
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A Deep Dive on Clustered Index
This article will follow a practical approach to choose the right candidate for clustered index. It'll investigate through the best practices recommended for clustered index, with the help of...
2020-05-07 (first published: 2020-04-27)
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SSIS Azure Blob Source Text Qualifier Issue
The issue When migrating the solution I’m currently working on to Azure eight months ago I was initially looking at transferring the SSIS packages that performed the ETL. We...
2020-05-07 (first published: 2020-04-27)
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Machine Learning – Introduction
Machine Learning : it is a system where system will learn how the pattern is going and accordingly we can predict the future information. There are two types in...
2021-04-27 (first published: 2020-04-26)
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Stairway to Microsoft Azure SQL Database Part 1 : Deployment Options
Recently I started working with Azure SQL Database. It took some time for me to understand the concepts of the Azure SQL database. Earlier I have experience in AWS...
2020-04-26
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Stairway to Microsoft Azure SQL Database Part 1 : Deployment Options
Recently I started working with Azure SQL Database. It took some time for me to understand the concepts of the Azure SQL database. Earlier I have experience in AWS...
2020-04-26
314 reads
I’m Speaking at #DataWeekender
With all our in-person events cancelled for the foreseeable future, I was so excited to find that some community folks are not sitting back and waiting for the social...
2020-04-25
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Daily Coping 24 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-24
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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