Enhancing SQL Server Searches with Elasticsearch and Python
Learn how to get started with Elasticsearch with data in your SQL Server database.
The Role of Databases in the Era of AI
Steve has a few thoughts on how AIs change the role of databases.
Azure Managed Instance Download and Restore SQL Server Backup
Create an SQL Server backup for an Azure Managed Instance that you can download and restore on another SQL Server instance.
Serverless Gets Faster
In Azure SQL Database serverless edition, we get an upgrade to our configuration.
Adding new files to a log-shipped database (SQL Spackle)
Freshly minted MCM Wayne Sheffield fills a log shipping crack that could otherwise cause you to re-initialize your log shipping.
Everything is Code
The executives at CrowdStrike testify before the US Congress, noting their software development process needs work.
Database Sharding: Strategies for Seamless Scaling and Performance Optimization
Companies of all sizes and across industries are struggling to cope with an explosion of data never before seen in the short history of computing. As applications reach new levels of sophistication and become deeply interconnected, these companies find themselves increasingly overworked, overheated, and at their wits’ end, desperately trying to squeeze just a bit more performance and availability out of their aging database architectures.
PASS Summit 2025 Dates
You heard it here first, PASS Data Community Summit will return to Seattle next year! Save the date, as PASS Summit will take place in person at Summit, Seattle Convention Center, from November 17-21, 2025!
Keep. It. Simple.
How simple should software development be? Steve notes it can be simple, but not too simple.
Level 1 of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics - Create a Synapse Workspace
In this first level of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics, we learn how to set up a new workspace and add data files.
Blogs
Convert SQL Audit Files to a CSV Using Read-SqlXEvent
By Patrick
SQL Server Audit is an efficient way to track and log events that occur...
Control Flow Restartability in Azure Data Factory
I presented at SQL Saturday Pittshburgh this past weekend about populating your data warehouse...
Monday Monitor Tips: Knowing Your RPO
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking recently about the RPO for their estate, and I showed...
Forums
changing over to a tab delimited file in my pkg that walks thru folders
hi, we just decided to change over to a tab delimited format in a...
how to query that stores mulit select field data
Hi everyone, I have a table as below, I would like to strip out...
Getting all ancestral parents of a table
From this link - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22005698/how-to-find-all-the-dependencies-of-a-table-in-sql-server I can find all the child dependencies starting from my...
Question of the Day
STRING_AGG's behavior
Executing the following script (Sql Server 2022), you get the table t0 with 10 rows:
CREATE TABLE t0
( id INT PRIMARY KEY
, field1 VARCHAR(1000)
, field2 VARCHAR(MAX));
INSERT INTO t0
SELECT
gs.value
, REPLICATE ('X', 1000)
, REPLICATE ('Y', 1000)
FROM generate_series(1, 10, 1) gs;
GOWhat happens if you execute the following statements?
select STRING_AGG(field1, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;
select STRING_AGG(field2, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;