What is the impact of setting SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF?
Setting ANSI_WARNINGS OFF to avoid NULL value elimination warnings can have an impact on the data quality and system behaviour.
Displaying and Removing Unprintable Hexadecimal Characters from SQL Server Data
There are times when you might need to look at your SQL Server data in hexadecimal format. Occasionally some string data will contain unprintable characters, which can cause downstream problems, if not detected and removed. Read on to learn how to display and remove unprintable hexadecimal characters from SQL Server data.
Bringing them back from the dead
When trying to find the causes for why the SQL Server service doesn’t start, one of the best places to start is the SQL Server Error log, but there is a problem!
Is Forgiveness Possible?
Recently, there was a prominent film director fired from directing an episode in a very entertaining and profitable movie franchise. His firing was for tweets he made that were in very bad taste. And bad doesn’t begin to cover it, they were about topics that were universally despicable. What made this interesting was not that […]
The Hybrid Cloud
There are lots of options with cloud providers and hybrid versions of public and private clouds might be the best solution.
Questions About Kerberos and SQL Server That You Were Too Shy to Ask
Kerberos authentication is a topic that many database administrators avoid. It’s really not that difficult to understand, but it’s also easy to get wrong. In this article, Kathi Kellenberger talks about what you need to know about configuring Kerberos for SSRS and SQL Server databases but were too shy to ask.
College Degrees Shouldn't Be Required for Tech Jobs
Today we have a guest editorial from Kendra Little that talks about the requirements you may have for potential employees.
Configuring Service Broker Architecture
Learn how to configure technically reliable, consistent, robust, efficient, asynchronous message queuing and processing mechanism to start developing highly available, scalable applications based upon the service–oriented architecture.
Foundational Material: Microsoft SQL Server Book and Blogs From The Past
Erik Darling dusts off his favorite archival-quality bloggers and books.
Blogs
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
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Want to look at cloud reporting but not sure what the costs will be?
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Have you been thinking about migrating your reporting to Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake but...
The Joyful Craftsmen and the Revolt BI join forces
The Joyful Craftsmen has become the new owner of Revolt BI. The merger creates...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers