Product Review: DataVeil
If you’re looking at data masking tools, I recently was able to review the DataVeil solution. Quite simply, getting production data out of non-production environments is still a big...
2023-09-19
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Blog Posts
ADS Copilot Experiments with XML
I sent some code to a customer recently to help them decrypt some stored procedures. I sent a quick and dirty set of code, noting at the bottom that...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
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State of the Database Landscape Survey 2023
As data professionals, of any stripe, we should, as much as we can, where we can, base our decisions on data. After all, in theory anyway, we’re the experts...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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The Last Price Bump for the Data Community Summit
This week the cost of the PASS Data Community Summit jumps up to full price, on Sep 21. This is your last chance to save big, so get someone...
2023-09-18
29 reads
DataMoshpit!
Today I’m presenting at DataMospit, the most metal conference in the data space! You can download the Sea of Madness bingo card from here: https://github.com/spaghettidba/CodeSamples/raw/master/SQLServerInfernals/InfernalBingo.xlsx The winner will get...
2023-09-16
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A New Word: Justing
justing – n. the habit of telling yourself that just one tweak could solve all your problems – if only you had the right haircut, if only you found...
2023-09-15
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Friday Flyway Tips: Searching Migrations
When a Flyway Desktop (FWD) project (or Flyway project) has been around for a long time, there can be a lot of migration scripts. That can be a pain...
2023-09-15 (first published: 2023-08-11)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Commit and Push
Flyway Desktop includes version control features with Git. One thing that was added in v6.5+ was the ability to commit and push. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for...
2023-09-15
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Blogs
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
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Question of the Day
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 See possible answers