Goal Progress for May 2021
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2021. As I look at goal progress for 2021, I’m going...
2021-05-28
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Blog Posts
Nerd Journey Podcast with Nick Korte
I’m thrilled to have recently recorded a podcast with Nick Korte from Nerd Journey. He recently recorded a different podcast that talks about the journey from being an IT...
2021-05-28 (first published: 2021-05-18)
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Daily Coping 27 May 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...
2021-05-27
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Creating a generic (template) pipeline in Azure Data Factory to send email messages with attached files from Azure Storage account
(2021-May-17) It took some time to come up with a final title for this blog post in my attempt to encapsulate its several major ideas: Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipeline,...
2021-05-26 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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Daily Coping 26 May 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...
2021-05-26
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How I tackle disaster recovery
One of my special interests as an autistic person is understanding mechanical components of a computer, both analog and digital. In the olden days, we had devices known as...
2021-05-26
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What’s new with Power BI?
At the Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021, a ton of new features for Power BI where announced. Below is my list of top ten new features, but there were...
2021-05-26 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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Daily Coping 25 May 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...
2021-05-25
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What account is xp_cmdshell using?
It works when I run it this way™ but not when I run it through xp_cmdshell! It’s a permissions issue. ... Continue reading
2021-05-25
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A Very Simple Blocking Alert
Blocking in SQL Server can be good – after all, it’s one of the ways consistency is guaranteed – we usually don’t want data written to by two processes...
2021-05-24 (first published: 2021-05-13)
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Blogs
Webcast Tomorrow on SQL Server Disaster Recovery
By Brian Kelley
Tomorrow, November 19, 2024, at 1 PM EST, I'm giving a webcast on SQL...
SQL Server Quickie #48 – Azure SQL Managed Instance
Today I have uploaded SQL Server Quickie #48 to YouTube. This time I’m talking...
Spark Connect Dotnet November 2024 Where are we?
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last...
Forums
SSMS 20.2 on Windows11 not able to connect to SQL 2005 ??
We still have a couple of dino's. What should I check to re-enable access...
Agent job security account
Hi All, I have few sql server agent scheduled jobs which are supposed to...
How to manage Time zone changes for countries
Hello Everyone, I am using Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) - 12.0.2000.8, as of October...
Question of the Day
What's the Ceiling?
What do I get as the results from this code?
SELECT CEILING (999.999), CEILING (-999.999);See possible answers