“Full Stack” Means “Part Time” – or Why DBAs Might Wanna Learn DevOps
Brent Ozar explains that if you're going to do continuous integration or deployment, you've got a rocky road ahead of you.
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.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
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Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
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Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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