SQL Tuesday #118 – Your Fantasy SQL Feature
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Kevin Chant and he’s asking us about a fantasy feature that we’d love to see in SQL Server. I had a little...
2019-09-09
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Last Week Reading (2019-09-08)
Hello all and welcome after my one month of my absence. What was I doing? Thank you for asking! I have been on holiday. ONE month of very relaxing,...
2019-09-08
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Azure – What is a Shared Access Signature?
Using a Shared Access Signature (SAS) is usually the best way to control access rights to Azure storage resources (like a container for backups) without exposing the primary /...
2019-09-08
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Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases (Part 3)
This is Part 3 in a three-part series. Please see Part 1 and Part 2 for more. There we go! Thank you Jon for sending in your questions. This...
2019-09-06
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Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases (Part 3)
This is Part 3 in a three-part series. Please see Part 1 and Part 2 for more.
What does your average day look like?
I’m going to punt to my “A...
2019-09-06
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SSIS Lookup Cache Modes
In SQL Server Integration Services, the lookup component is one of the most frequently used tools for data validation and completion. The lookup component is provided as a means...
2019-09-05
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Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a series. Please see Part 1 for the background and more. Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion in Part 3, coming soon!
The post Q&A:...
2019-09-05
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Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a series. Please see [Part 1]/2019/09/03/qa-dealing-with-thousands-of-databases/) for the background and more.
What is the most unexpected experience you’ve had in this position?
I have two answers...
2019-09-05
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MEAP MEAP – #dbatoolsMoL – Live Book edition
It’s been a busy time! As well as many other things, the fantastical BDFL of dbatools Chrissy Lemaire @cl and myself have written enough of a chunk of Learn dbatools in...
2019-09-04
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Quick Blog: Clone Power BI Workspace Permissions
However, one detail they left out of that post is how to clone the users & groups, and their respective permissions from one Workspace to another. It's a pretty...
2019-09-04
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Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
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A New Word: Dorgone
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Question of the Day
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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