Healthcare workers are some of the many heroes working bravely in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. To protect themselves and their patients, they must wear face masks during their entire shifts. This causes a great deal of ear irritation, so a strap was designed to make wearing the masks easier and alleviate pressure on […]
This article shows different options to use the rounding functions in SQL Server.
With many conferences going virtual, Steve wonders what the future holds.
In the immortal words of “Orange” Julius Caesar as written by Shake’s peer, “Beware the bugs of March.” It took us 2,064 years, but we’ve finally fixed those bugs, plus added a couple of new features.
The purpose of this document is to walkthrough helpful Unix commands that would help use Unix/Linux operating system, debug & resolve any issues in a more efficient and timely manner.
In this tip I will demonstrate a simple way of launching a SQL Agent job when the job it depends on completes successfully.
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Fingerprints provide some security, but a research suggests not necessarily much. Steve has a few thoughts.
No matter where you run your SQL Server® instances—on-premises, in a virtual machine, or in an Azure SQL Database Managed instance—the challenge is the same. How do you ensure you get optimum performance? Is the virtual machine impacting your database instance performance? Which queries cause the most blocking or deadlocking? Are you consuming more DTUs in your Azure SQL Database than you budgeted for?
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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