Mental Health Day from the WIT Group
The pandemic of the last year has been a difficult time for many individuals and organizations. I know that I have had a number of ups and downs across...
2021-05-05 (first published: 2021-04-23)
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #014: Resolutions
At the end of 2010, Sean McCown (blog | Twitter) invited us to talk about resolutions: Things like getting certified, or perfecting a process, or taking management classes, etc...
2021-05-05
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Using Logic App to send multiple attachments from Azure Storage Account
(2021-Apr-23) Memory is an interesting thing, you may not remember all events from your past, but some sparking moments keep extending their bright beams of light. With the growing time...
2021-05-05 (first published: 2021-04-23)
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Daily Coping 4 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...
2021-05-04
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Ethics in Modern Data at Minnesota Developers Conference 2021
Looking forward to speaking to a brand new conference for us, the Minnesota Developers Conference 2021 on May 4 at 2pmCT. Christine and I will be presenting a talk that...
2021-05-04
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SQL Homework – May 2021 – Extended Events.
You’ve probably heard about extended events right? I honestly don’t care if you are #teamProfiler or #teamXE you need to ... Continue reading
2021-05-04
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Chaos Engineering and SQL Server
Recently I’ve been delving into Chaos Engineering, reading books, watching videos, listening to podcasts etc. and I find it really intriguing….I mean, it just sounds exciting, right? CHAOS Engineering!...
2021-05-03 (first published: 2020-01-29)
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Daily Coping 3 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...
2021-05-03
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Finding Foreign Key Child Records In SQL Server
Foreign keys help to ensure referential integrity between tables. In other words, parent records cannot be deleted if there are child records present. This is a great thing and...
2021-05-03 (first published: 2020-01-31)
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My upcoming Online Speaking Engagements
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2021-05-03
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Blogs
Azure SQL offerings
By James Serra
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers,...
T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions....
A Little Brainstorming with an AI
By Steve Jones
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than...
Forums
Moving Database Files
I just learned that my database was created on my C:\ drive in the...
Migrate MSSQL to MYSQL - Different Servers
I am needing to migrate a MSSQL db to MySQL, on a different server...
how do you manage new columns in a tabular table
Hi we run 2019 ssas std. Yesterday i imported my tabular project to vs...
Question of the Day
Mixed Backups
I have a complex database with a few filegroups and files. Can I run a backup command like this? (assume file/filegroup names are valid).
BACKUP DATABASE [complex]
FILE = N'thirdone'
, FILE = N'thirdtwo'
, FILEGROUP = N'second'
TO DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQL2022\MSSQL\Backup\complex.bak'
WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'complex-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
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