How to Programmatically Identify When Your SQL Server Was Last Started
Greg Larsen shows you a quick trick to programmatically script a way to identify when SQL Server was last started.
Avoiding Unexpected Results with DATEDIFF in Year Comparisons
Learn how to avoid unexpected results when using the DATEDIFF function to find the difference between two dates in years.
Stumbling over Words
Phil Factor argues that the ability to write simply and expressively is a much under-valued skill in IT, and explains the main traps to avoid.
What's Downtime?
Steve asks the question today of how you might measure downtime and the scope you are concerned about.
Mount SQL Server DMVs and Custom Queries Using DBFS on Linux
With SQL Server now supported on Linux, traditional SQL Server DBAs will need to learn how to work with Linux, and Linux administrators will need to learn how to work with SQL Server. Fortunately, there are several tools available to assist. In this article Prashanth Jayaram describes how to work with the DMV tool which treats queries as files.
How to execute a Powershell script via SSIS
Learn how you can execute a PowerShell script via the SSIS execute process task.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Today we have a guest editorial from Derik Hammer that reminds us that there isn't one solution that will fit all your solutions.
Data Retention: An Inexact Art
A myriad of laws regulate data retention and generally compete with each other. William Brewer provides an introduction to the principles, but gives good advice -- leave the details to the specialists.
Analyze entity data flow in Power BI Desktop using Sankey charts
Siddharth Mehta looks at how and why to use Sankey charts and how this can be done in Power BI Desktop.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
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This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
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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