How To Fix OBS Black Screen when recording SQL Server Session Demo’s?
Everyone loves a demo. When I say everyone, I mean I personally love seeing a demo in a session which is why 99% of any sessions I present will...
2020-04-02
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SQLGeordie
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Delayed Durability in the wild…
Background
We have recently been working on large data migration project for one of our clients and thought I would share...
2016-11-18 (first published: 2016-11-14)
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Why would you never use SSIS Fast Load…?
We all know that if you want SQL Server to push data into a table then you want to batch the...
2016-11-17 (first published: 2016-11-14)
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Windows 10 Upgrade on Surface Pro 3 – Sending email issue FIXED
I very rarely blogabout anything other than SQL Server but felt that with a lot of the SQL Community using...
2015-08-02
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SQLNorthEast Usergroup 2015 dates announced (preliminary)
Mike and I have been extremely busy over the Xmas period and we’ve finally sorted dates for our 2015 instalment of...
2015-01-13
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Merge csv files – quick PowerShell snippet
During a bit of work I’ve been doing this evening for SQLRelay, I used something I have in my arsenal of...
2014-07-14
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney...
2013-12-31
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Output SQL Server data from multiple tables to Tab Delimited text files using Powershell
I had a request this morning for something I though was actually very simple:
Client: “Can you extract all data for...
2013-12-27 (first published: 2013-12-20)
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SQL Server NorthEast – New Usergroup!!
SQLBits in Nottingham was where it all began. A short conversation on whether there were any plans for a SQL...
2013-11-19
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Making sure your Triggers fire when they should
As some of you may be aware, triggers are not my favourite thing in the world but like most things,...
2013-03-04
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Blogs
I recommend Smart Brevity (book) for communications
By Brian Kelley
Following the advice in Smart Brevity improves communication.
SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all
By John
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine....
Monday Monitor Tips: Learning While Using the Tool
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about what certain items in Redgate Monitor mean. They have...
Forums
Switch partition: NULL boundary id
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
Minimally Viable Security
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Encoding NULL
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Question of the Day
Encoding NULL
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)See possible answers