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2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-20)
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #155–Using Dynamic SQL for SQLCMD
It’s that time of month, and I’m the host this month. I wrote the invitation last week and now its’ time to answer. I’m actually using an example from...
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-11)
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Daily Coping 20 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to avoid blaming yourself or others. Find a helpful way forward. I’ve been busy lately. My days are jammed up with a number of presentations...
2022-10-20
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Daily Coping 19 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to take time to reflect on what you have accomplished recently. What have I done recently? Lots of stuff, but a couple things come out...
2022-10-19
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Overcoming a storage failover issue with SQL Server on Kubernetes using Portworx
In a previous post I talked about an issue with storage failover when a Kubernetes node goes offline. In a nutshell, the issue is that the attachdetach-controller in Kubernetes...
2022-10-19 (first published: 2022-10-11)
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What you can do is based on more than your direct permissions.
What you have access to is not just what you have direct permissions to. The other day I needed to ... Continue reading
2022-10-19 (first published: 2022-10-06)
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Windows 11 Complaints
I upgraded my primary laptop to Windows 11. A few people had said they liked it, I know that I needed to keep up at some point, and in...
2022-10-19
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An Update to Skipping the Leading Digit in T-SQL–#SQLNewBlogger
There was an interesting question in a forum, which I wrote about before. How do you skip the leading digit in a numeric value. I had looked at a...
2022-10-18 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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Daily Coping 18 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to share an important goal with someone you trust. I’m not sharing an important goal here. Honestly, some of the things that are important to...
2022-10-18
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements Oct 2022
Announced at Microsoft Ignite were some new product features related to data platform and AI. Below are the ones I found most interesting: Azure Cosmos DB adds distributed PostgreSQL...
2022-10-18
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers