Resetting an Azure SQL Database Admin Password
This is likely something that most people know, but it was a bit confusing for me. This post is really here to remind me and help cement this in...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-05)
2,973 reads
The Voice of the DBA
A Quick Look at Travel
I was experimenting with visualizations the other day, and started playing with SandDance, a tool from Microsoft that you can use in Power BI or Azure Data Studio. I’ll...
2019-12-24 (first published: 2019-12-02)
291 reads
Take the 2020 State of Database DevOps survey
It’s still 2019, but we’re looking forward to 2020 and wonder how your world has changed since our survey last year. There are a number of questions and this...
2019-12-13 (first published: 2019-12-02)
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How Serverless is Working in Azure SQL Database
When Azure SQL Database introduced the serverless option, I decided to try it. I moved one of my databases to the tier, though I had to move to a...
2019-12-10 (first published: 2019-11-27)
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Cleaning up the [NOT] NULL for Columns with SQL Prompt 10
SQL Prompt 10 is out and there are a few interesting things that have changed in the product. One of these is the Quick Fixes, inspired by some other...
2019-12-06 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Data Masker Reads Column Classificiations
One of the newer features in Data Masker for SQL Server is the ability to read column classifications and suggest rules to clean the data. I decided to give...
2019-12-02 (first published: 2019-11-22)
271 reads
Setting Certificate Backup Permissions for an Instance–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Recently I was testing some security change, and...
2019-11-20
119 reads
Getting Started with SQL Prompt 10
This week we released SQL Prompt 10, which is an exciting milestone for us. I remember when I discovered this little gem for Database Weekly and sent it over...
2019-11-15
130 reads
Batch Scripting SQLCMD–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I wouldn’t do this anymore, but I ran...
2019-11-22 (first published: 2019-11-13)
422 reads
New HA Licensing Benefits
Microsoft announced recently that they were changing the way licensing works for HA and DR situations. I think this is a great change, and the summary is: You can...
2019-11-11
37 reads
Blogs
Stop Using Pandas for Aggregations — Try DuckDB Instead
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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