Getting More Information From the String or Binary Data Truncated Error
Get more information from the string or binary data truncated message to help troubleshoot data problems on SQL Server 2016, 2017, and 2019.
2022-08-17
8,438 reads
Articles
Introduction to Testing a Flyway Development
How to use Flyway Teams to run basic tests whenever it successfully executes a migration, checking that all the business processes supported by our database always produce the expected results.
2022-08-17
Power BI Dynamic X and Y Axis Using Groupings in Field Parameters
In this step-by-step article, learn how to dynamically select what displays on the X or Y axis of a Power BI chart.
2022-08-17
How to Visualize Python Charts in Power BI
This article will show how you can code in Python and produce a chart for Power BI.
2022-08-15
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Metrics that matter for IT organizations on an agile journey
Measuring the wrong things is worse than not measuring anything. In this article, Mallika Gunturu explains the right things to measure for agile.
2022-08-15
Re-baselining a Database using Flyway Desktop
Over time, Flyway projects can accumulate a lot of migration scripts, with many database objects being created, altered, and dropped across many files. Tonie Huizer explains why you might want to create a new baseline migration file to create the latest version of a Flyway-managed database in a single leap, and how to persuade Flyway Desktop to do it.
2022-08-15
Data Flow Formatters - Flatten, Parse and Stringify in Azure Data Factory
This article discusses the data flow formatters, Flatten, Parse, and Stringify, which can be useful when dealing with JSON data.
2022-08-12
16,899 reads
Metrics that matter for IT organizations on an agile journey
Measuring the wrong things is worse than not measuring anything. In this article, Mallika Gunturu explains the right things to measure for agile.
2022-08-12
Searching a Flyway Database
As a database gets larger, and development more complex, so it becomes increasingly necessary to be able to search for strings in the source files and the database itself. Maybe you need to find when a table first got created, when a foreign key was added, or to find out which tables lack documentation. I'll show you how to answer these sorts of questions by running simple 'wildcard' searches on your Flyway migration files, or source files, as well as more targeted searches on certain parts of your database model.
2022-08-12
Database DevOps: Standardize, Automate, Monitor & Protect
See how our end-to-end framework for extending DevOps to your database enables your organization to balance the demand to deliver software fast with the need to protect and preserve business critical data.
2022-08-10
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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