Clearing an Email from the Microsoft Directory
Years ago I was working on a demo with Microsoft and someone added me to their VSTS (now Azure DevOps) project. Somehow, I got an account in the Live/Passport/Joe-Schmo...
2019-05-20
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The Voice of the DBA
Moving to Serverless for Azure SQL DB
After the announcement of Serveless Azure SQL Datbase at //build/, I decided to give it a try. I have some Basic databases, so what would Serverless mean for me?...
2019-05-31 (first published: 2019-05-15)
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Puzzles–T-SQL Tuesday #114
This month we have a very interesting topic from Matthew McGiffen. He gets back to the roots of the party with code by asking a question on puzzles. It’s...
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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Always Use Roles–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Which of these is more complex? GRANT SELECT...
2019-05-23 (first published: 2019-05-10)
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Launching ADS from SSMS
If you haven’t heard, SSMS v18 went GA (Generally Availability) recently. You can download it from Microsoft, though if you have a preview version, you do need to uninstall...
2019-05-17 (first published: 2019-05-06)
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Initialize-HgsServiceName Fails in VMWare
A short one, but one that took some digging and debugging and help from others. Saving here, so I remember, as do others. I had a VMWare Workstation v12.x...
2019-05-10 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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More Software Quality with DevOps and CD
Tomorrow is the SQL in the City Summit in London. Right now I’m in a Heathrow airport hotel, finalizing some prep for the event. I have to run a...
2019-04-29
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SQLServerCentral Design–bbPress
This is part of a series of posts that look at the changes to the SQLServerCentral design, bringing us to v3 of the site. You can see the other...
2019-04-26
43 reads
A Cool Image
Maybe we can get Chris Spalton to do some of these for all our events? I really like it. Just a few days until SQL in the City Summit...
2019-04-26
43 reads
Blogs
Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
Connect resiliently to SQL Server
Why you should connect resiliently to SQL Server Transient failures happen — in the cloud...
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$server = "YourServer" $db = "YourDatabase" $sqlFile = "C:\path\query.sql" $outFile = "C:\path\output.xlsx" # Run...
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$server = "YourServer" $db = "YourDatabase" $sqlFile = "C:\path\query.sql" $outFile = "C:\path\output.xlsx" # Run...
Some query values change when query is run but not others. Why?
Hi everyone I have a 1000 line SQL query that is too long to...