Data jokes
I’m feeling a bit uninspired this week, and I plan on only doing one post this week, so I figured ... Continue reading
2021-12-03 (first published: 2021-11-23)
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Blog Posts
Data Platform MVP
I have a good news to share with you all. This year, 1st of August 2021 I have received an email that surprised me. The email reads that I...
2021-12-03
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Dec 8 Webinar with Pavilion – Boost SQL Server on VMware Performance 400% with 2-Step Tuning
Join us on December 8th at 10am Pacific time for an exciting new webinar! Performance tuning advanced SQL Server workloads is as much of an art form as it...
2021-12-03
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Issue with Windows pass through authentication
It began with an error thrown by a linked server. The linked server is on our warehouse server and connects to our SSIS server using the “login’s current security...
2021-12-03 (first published: 2021-11-23)
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Daily Coping 2 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-02
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SQL Homework – December 2021 – Changing collation
I can only speak for the locations I’ve worked at of course, but in all of the places I’ve worked ... Continue reading
2021-12-02
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Times Like These with SQL Server
I was doing some conversion of Oracle code (PL/SQL) to SQL Server code (T-SQL) – which had some quirks. I just thought that I’d share a quick tip that...
2021-12-02
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3 Important Queries for Testing Your Availability Group Endpoints
In this article, I have shown the importance of performing three different validation tests against your Availability Group Endpoints. Each test also demonstrates what can be run in the...
2021-12-01 (first published: 2021-10-12)
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Azure Synapse Analytics database templates
One of the biggest announcements at Microsoft Ignite that seemed to be overlooked by a lot of people was Azure Synapse Analytics database templates, now in public preview. I...
2021-12-01 (first published: 2021-11-22)
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Be careful with table updates
The dire warning in the subject line is not meant to scare you. Rather, it is advice that is going to be useful to those of us who need...
2021-12-01
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Blogs
A New Word: Ochisia
By Steve Jones
ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life...
Create a Numbers Table in Power Query
This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if...
Microsoft finally adds Tenant Switcher for Fabric / Power BI
Praise whatever deity you believe in, because it’s finally here, a tenant switcher for...
Forums
To View or not to View, that is the question...
I've read lots of the horror stories about nested views in databases where they're...
Grant user read-write permission to a single database
Hello! How do I grant a user to read-write to a single database and...
Question of the Day
The Density Vector
When building statistics, there is the concept of density that refers to the duplicates in a table. How is this calculated?
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