This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all who posted on this topic! Here are the highlights of the posts (in alphabetical order...
2024-11-21 (first published: 2024-11-20)
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I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices (Amazon link), which means I got a copy for free. The book is...
2024-11-20 (first published: 2024-11-19)
16 reads
I am off to Live 360 today, on my last trip of the year. I’m excited to deliver two presentations tomorrow (VSTH03 and VSTH12), but a little sad this...
2024-11-20
5 reads
It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired, as are many others. The blogging table is a little bare this am, but I...
2024-11-20 (first published: 2024-11-08)
129 reads
On October 2nd and 3rd, I took part in an amazing event called AI Data Infrastructure Field Day as a delegate. If you’ve never heard of this event before,...
2024-11-20 (first published: 2024-11-11)
141 reads
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used with a read-only database as a source. It’s a good questions as I’ve seen some...
2024-11-20
20 reads
Introducing SQL Server 2025 - Enterprise Ready AI SQL Server 2025 is an upcoming release focused on AI, analytics, and modern database development, backed by innovations in mission-critical engine...
2024-11-19
105 reads
A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless) Availability Group to seed a database from a Windows SQL instance into a pod in...
2024-11-19
18 reads
I’m thrilled to be covering the Microsoft Keynote: Fuel AI Innovation with Azure Databases on Day 1 of the PASS Data Community Summit. Data is the driving force behind innovation, powering...
2024-11-18 (first published: 2024-11-06)
125 reads
I missed blogging yesterday as I was on stage/backstage for quite a bit of the keynote. Live updates, so keep refreshing. Today I’m blogging and noting the interesting things...
2024-11-18 (first published: 2024-11-07)
126 reads
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers