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Backup and restore
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Long Term Storage
Long term data storage isn't something we always need for databases, but it is something the world needs. A new technology has promise for those use cases, both in durability and preserving the algorithms needed.
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Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever
A major outage from Atlassian because of a bad script has Steve thinking about the challenges of recovering from mistakes. When we are making changes to portions of our data and we need to plan for mistakes to occur and ensure we can restore the data.
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Question of the Day
Crazy Code I
I have this data in my Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName 1 Steve 2 Andy 3 Brian 4 Allen 5 DevinI run this code:
SELECT
t.CustomerID
, c.value
FROM
( SELECT
CustomerID
, STRING_AGG (CustomerName, ',') AS me
FROM customer
GROUP BY CustomerID) t
CROSS APPLY STRING_SPLIT(me, ',') c;
What is returned? See possible answers