How was it done back in the day? T-SQL Tuesday #114
It’s TSQL Tuesday and Matthew McGiffen (b/t) is our host with a subject near and dear to my heart. Puzzles! ... Continue reading
2019-05-27 (first published: 2019-05-14)
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Animating a Magic 8 Ball in SQL Server Management Studio
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #114 prompt by Matthew McGiffen. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-05-24 (first published: 2019-05-14)
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Animating a Magic 8 Ball in SQL Server Management Studio
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #114 prompt by Matthew McGiffen. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-05-14
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Animating a Magic 8 Ball in SQL Server Management Studio
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #114 prompt by Matthew McGiffen. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-05-14
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Azure SQL Database Serverless
Quite a significant change has taken place within the Azure SQL Database space, more specifically the development of Azure SQL Database Serverless. Currently in preview mode this “compute” tier changes...
2019-05-14
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SQLDay 2019 – Day 1 – workshops
Today it was a workshop day at SQLDay. Five workshops (one unfortunately has been cancelled). I think at least 300-350 people have attended the conference during the first day....
2019-05-14
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A Clean Values Clause with SQL Prompt
I’ve had this code in a snippet for a long time: I appreciate the markup to prevent SQL Prompt from doing this, which used to always happen. I can’t...
2019-05-13
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When Your Options Are Limited
In my role I am still on-call several times each month, and many of the escalations that come are simply things that newer DBA's and Help Desk staff have...
2019-05-23 (first published: 2019-05-13)
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DevOps Is About Communication
I spend a lot of time showing how to use tools to automate database deployments in support of DevOps. However, the one message that I always try to deliver...
2019-05-24 (first published: 2019-05-13)
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Last Week Reading (2019-05-12)
Hello folks! One week passed, another one almost began. And that will be a crazy week on two conferences. Today, I’m in Wroclaw (Poland) where we’re prepping SQLDay conference...
2019-05-13
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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