dbatools v1.0? It’s available – Check it out!
Dear reader, before continue please open a PowerShell console and run the following command: If you are doing this on the date of this blog post, you have just...
2019-06-19
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dbatools v1.0? It's available - Check it out!
Dear reader, before continue please open a PowerShell console and run the following command:
Install-Module -Name dbatools If you are doing this on the date of this blog post, you...
2019-06-19
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Achieving application consistent recovery points of SQL Server 2008 R2 with Azure Site Recovery in Azure
If you want to use ASR to replicate SQL Server 2008 R2 standalone or clustered instances, you will need to update the SQL Writer to 2012 or later. You...
2019-06-18
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 9: ILIKE
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to...
2019-07-02 (first published: 2019-06-18)
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Scalar Valued Functions in SQL Server 2019
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2019-07-01 (first published: 2019-06-18)
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Globally Distributed Azure Cosmos DB
Let’s use the Azure portal to build a globally distributed Cosmos DB. Before doing this, why would you ? what are the benefits? Regional based. By this I mean...
2019-06-18
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user’s input...
2019-07-03 (first published: 2019-06-18)
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
39 reads
Trello For The User Group
I’m trying Trello this year to manage both SQLSaturday and our other events. Part of that is giving the whole team visibility of the work that remains to be...
2019-06-18
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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