How I Continuously Learn About SQL Server
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Documentation is good for knowing the specification of a...
2019-07-16
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Azure Service Logging in the Modern Data Warehouse
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] The “modern data platform” architecture is becoming more and more popular as organisations shift towards identifying, collecting and centralising their data...
2019-07-16
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Azure Service Logging in the Modern Data Warehouse
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] The “modern data platform” architecture is becoming more and more popular as organisations shift towards identifying, collecting and centralising their data...
2019-08-06 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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Power Platform Conference – 7/23-24/2019
Pragmatic Works is hosting a 2-day Power Platform online conference. If you are unable to get out to onsite conference but need some help with Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, or...
2019-07-15
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Learning more Kubernetes
I’ve been slowly working my way through the 50 days of Kubernetes (K8s). As you might have guessed if you remember my first post, this has been more than...
2019-08-08 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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sp_RestoreScript v1.4 – It’s Now Compatible with Case Sensitive Collations, Accepts Wild Cards in DB Names and Fixes A bug
sp_RestoreScript 1.4 is now out and ready for download from our GitHub, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/sp_restorescript.sql New Features Compatible with case sensitive collations Now accepts wild cards in the @DatabaseName string, (‘Database1,Database2,SQL%’)...
2019-07-15
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Refreshing dependent views after a DDL change
When you are in charge of databases with tons of objects, making a small change over an object can be difficult to replicate if you have a lot of...
2019-07-15
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Refreshing dependent views after a DDL change
When you are in charge of databases with tons of objects, making a small change over an object can be difficult to replicate if you have a lot of...
2019-08-02 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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Short circuiting an AND
The other day I did a post on how an OR short circuts. It was a somewhat unusual type of ... Continue reading
2019-08-06 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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Implement DevOps One Step At a Time
In preparation for my upcoming DevOps training days (see the bottom of this post for details) and for some articles I’m working on, I’ve been building all new automation...
2019-08-02 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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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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