The Value of Information
If I have accomplished anything, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
2007-10-03
157 reads
Editorial
Seamless Upgrade
One of the things mentioned in a keynote at the recent PASS conference was the idea that SQL Server 2008 would be a seamless upgrade. Or maybe I misunderstood and it will seem less like an upgrade 🙂
2007-10-02
247 reads
2007-10-01
484 reads
Compliance
The Sarbanes-Oxley act has become a four letter word to many IT people in the US. Thankfully I only had to deal with it for about 9 months before I left to go work on my own, but it was a long 9 months. Especially since I did half the work with JD Edwards and then did it again with Peoplesoft 🙁
2007-10-01
255 reads
Dog Food
Should you dog food your own software? Steve Jones thinks this is a good idea if it works for your particular product.
2012-10-03 (first published: 2007-09-28)
634 reads
What Should A DBA Be Doing?
I came across an interesting blog post on jobs, which actually caught me eye after another blog on time spent on various things, many of which are not necessarily important to your business.
2007-09-27
2,381 reads
The September Energy Update
I think you'll be happy to know that there are interesting people out there. One of my neighbors, maybe a couple miles away, has a windmill that I've watched run regularly as I drove my daughter to school all last year. I finally grabbed their address one day and wrote them a letter, not wanting to just walk up to their door with a list of questions. I waited patiently for a couple weeks and finally got an email.
2007-09-26
172 reads
Free Training
I heard on Thursday a couple weeks ago that someone who had received a free admission to the PASS conference had cancelled and wasn't able to attend. It was last minute and that pretty much ruled out any chance to have a contest, so I called a friend in Denver who's a DBA and doesn't get much of a budget for training. I offered him the admission and he said he'd let me know Friday.
2007-09-25
1,437 reads
Three Months
That's what we were estimating the rewrite of this site would take. After all, to me it's a pretty simple site, a few content sections, some date specific stuff, scheduling, a few admin tools, not that much, right?
2007-09-24
143 reads
Billy-yons and Billy-yons of Records
There was an article last week with a great title: The Mother of All Genealogy Databases, and so I had to take a look at it. It talks about some of the large databases on the Internet that are collection public records and linking them together to help people find out about their individual and family histories. The largest site so far, Ancestry.com, supposedly has 5 billion records.
2007-09-24
218 reads
Blogs
Convert SQL Audit Files to a CSV Using Read-SqlXEvent
By Patrick
SQL Server Audit is an efficient way to track and log events that occur...
Control Flow Restartability in Azure Data Factory
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Monday Monitor Tips: Knowing Your RPO
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking recently about the RPO for their estate, and I showed...
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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;
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