2024-12-30
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infrastructure
Finding the Free Space Difference Between Availability Groups Replicas
When was last time you have checked your Always On Availability Groups' replicas storage distribution?
2020-11-09
2,071 reads
ASP.NET Core with GitOps: Deploying Infrastructure as Code
Automation of server builds minimizes human error, ensures that environments are identical, and saves time building servers. This article from Mircea Opera demonstrates provisioning one server or multiple load-balanced servers in AWS with code.
2019-12-26
Coping with Infrastructure Upgrades
A common topic for questions on SQL Server forums is how to plan and implement upgrades to SQL Server. Moving from old to new hardware or moving from one version of SQL Server to another. There are other circumstances where upgrades of other systems affect SQL Server DBAs.
2012-12-17
2,026 reads
Evolution and Technology: Data Warehouse Infrastructure
A look an evolution of infrastructures from Bill Immon.
2009-05-21
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Blogs
Using SQLFluff
I thought I didn’t care about linting, and lately, I haven’t written a lot...
Marketing Analyst: The Data-Driven Superhero Your Company Needs
Want to blend your love of marketing with the power of data? Becoming a...
Can You See Table Valued Parameters in Extended Events?
I live for questions and this was an interesting one. Can you see Table...
Forums
Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using Python
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using...
Eliminate a function by writing out the code is now throwing an error
/* I'm trying to eliminate (write out) this function 'largest_date', but SQL Server 2016...
SQL Server Migration - Redirecting Old Instance Connections to New AG Listener
Hi everyone, I’ve been tasked with migrating a Standalone SQL Server instance to a...
Question of the Day
A Strange Choice
What is returned when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
CREATE TABLE CatIndex
( indexval VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.CatIndex (indexval) VALUES ('1'), ('2'), ('3')
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(indexval, cast('2025-01-01' AS DATE), CAST('2025-02-01' AS DATE), CAST('2025-03-01' AS DATE))
FROM dbo.CatIndex AS ci See possible answers