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Bradley Ball is a Sr. Azure FastTrack Customer Engineer for Microsoft, and former Data Platform MVP. During his IT career Bradley has spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army, The Executive Office of the President of the United States for the Obama Administration, and is the former Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, now 3Cloud. He has presented at SQL Saturdays, SSUG's, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits, SQL Live 360, and the PASS Summit. Bradley co-hosts the Tales From The Field YouTube show https://aka.ms/TftF/youtube , he can also be found blogging on https://www.SQLBalls.com

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T-SQL Tuesday #44 Wrap UP

Hello Dear Reader, what a busy week we’ve had last week!  I’ve got 3 big Thank You’s that I would...

2013-07-18 (first published: )

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Running Steve's Code

Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error? 

CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
    
        SELECT Consumer_ID ,
               Trend_Category ,
               Bit_Trace
        FROM    NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
    
GO

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