Padding a string in SQL Server
I’ve been working on converting a piece of DB2 code into T-SQL and one of the functions I had to ... Continue reading
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
391 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Server vs Instance. A rant.
It’s a SQL Server Instance not a SQL Server. The product is SQL Server. The installed copy is an Instance. ... Continue reading
2021-07-29
342 reads
Speaking: In person vs webinars vs recordings
I don’t speak all that often. A few times a year for the most part. Because of that I don’t ... Continue reading
2021-07-27
10 reads
Interview with the Amazing Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
Thanks for agreeing to do this Kellyn. I’ve always found you to be one of the more interesting personalities in ... Continue reading
2021-07-23 (first published: 2021-07-08)
231 reads
Experiment: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled will BCP pull the non masked data.
Hypothesis: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled on a column then when I use something like BCP to pull ... Continue reading
2021-07-20
8 reads
Another reason I prefer side-by-side SQL Server instance upgrades.
This is a quick non-technical discussion (i.e. not a how to in any way) of some of the benefits of ... Continue reading
2021-07-16 (first published: 2021-06-29)
671 reads
The SQL Server community and the rising tide (and all that).
I was speaking with one of my favorite people in the SQL Server community, Grant Fritchey (blog|twitter), on twitter today. ... Continue reading
2021-07-06
87 reads
DDL Trigger to log database level security commands.
In my last post I talked about reasons why your permissions might go missing. One of the reasons, and in ... Continue reading
2021-07-05 (first published: 2021-06-24)
229 reads
SQL Homework – July 2021 – Log shipping
Log shipping is probably the least complicated and easiest to configure of the various methods of creating a secondary copy ... Continue reading
2021-07-01
24 reads
Long names vs short names (or aliases)
I remember when I was first learning to code there was always the argument of how long a name should ... Continue reading
2021-06-30 (first published: 2021-06-15)
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Blogs
Microsoft Purview GA menu’s
By James Serra
The new data governance features in Microsoft Purview are now being made generally available...
Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant
Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added...
Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
By Steve Jones
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell...
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GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
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Concat Addition
What is the result of this code?
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