Markdown documents are becoming increasingly more popular and relevant with the emergence of notebooks. Markdown is a markup language for creating formatted text. It is widely used in tools for collaboration, tools for creating documentation and notebooks. Formatting is easy to understand, readable, simple to adopt, and agnostic. I can use a markdown document on […]
2021-11-29
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SQLFacts is a FREE suite of 26 (and counting) tools for SQL Server database development, database administration, and performance tuning. The toolkit is all T-SQL code and it includes the functionality of hundreds of short scripts.
2021-11-19
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How to get the most out of SQL Search, a free database search tool for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Visual Studio that will locate database objects based on their names, columns, or text.
2021-11-19
SQL Server sequence objects can be used in place of identity columns. In this article, Greg Larsen explains how to set up and use sequence objects.
2021-11-17
A quick look at how the native SQL Server Row-Level Security compares with Gallium Data's solution for limiting access to rows of data.
2021-11-15
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In this tip we look at different reasons why a SQL Server database will be in a restoring state and things that can be done to access the database.
2021-11-15
In this article we look at how to use string functions to concatenate, replace, trim and get substrings in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
2021-10-25
SQL Server identity columns are easy to add to a table, but you must understand how they work to use them effectively. In this article, Greg Larsen explains the nuances of SQL Server identity columns.
2021-10-22
Introduction According to the official documentation, the READ COMMITTED isolation level “specifies that statements cannot read data that has been modified but not committed by other transactions”. So, one could think that a record returned under this isolation level existed in the committed state at the time of reading. In this article, I am going […]
2021-10-01
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In this article we look at some of the things you should be aware of when building a VM to run SQL Server, such as vCPUs, disks, memory and more.
2021-09-27
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A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
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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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