I live for questions and this was an interesting one. Can you see Table Valued Parameters that have been passed in to Extended Events? I literally have no idea....
2025-04-02 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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Want to blend your love of marketing with the power of data? Becoming a marketing analyst is the way to go. This job is all about measuring how well campaigns actually work, understanding...
2025-04-02 (first published: 2025-03-18)
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Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt, your backups fail, or your cloud bill skyrockets. The “DBA? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’...
2025-04-02
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Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or Synapse Pipelines). This can be done using a Web Activity, and most...
2025-04-01
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The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This comes off of the back of my last post looking at using a distributed availability...
2025-04-01
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I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...
2025-04-01
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A customer asked if they needed to restore a database from backup to compare the schema in a database. They don’t and this post shows that. This is part...
2025-03-31
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I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2025-03-31 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not using Extended Events. You can read all about it here, but a short summary of...
2025-03-31
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If we aren't having the same conversation, we aren't going to be heard. That's what Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, covered in the following TED talk:
2025-03-31
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By Kevin3NF
Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt,...
By Brian Kelley
I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?,...
Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure...
I am in the process of migrating from MySQL to SQL Server. I have...
I have the following select statement --#1 Select supplier, s.refnum, desc from supplier as...
Good morning to all. I am a novice when it comes to SQL so...
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?
DECLARE @value INT = NULL , @value2 VARCHAR(20) = NULL; SELECT COALESCE (@value, @value2, 100.5) AS Result; GOSee possible answers