A Monumental Migration to SQL Server 2016 - Part 1
A bit over a year ago, I blogged about my experience migrating a test SQL Server instance from a VM to a physical machine with a little help from...
2019-01-07
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FLX SQL
2018 Year in Review
As we open 2019, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year.
Blogging 2018 was my biggest year of blogging yet! I published 28 posts and...
2019-01-02
Thread-safe PowerShell Logging with PSFramework
In my previous post, I mentioned that I wasn’t checking the status of my RSJobs because I had logging built into my function. I originally tried to log out...
2018-12-24
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PowerShell Multithreading with PoshRSJob
Intro PowerShell has had a native method for spawning multiple “threads” ever since I can remember, in the form of the *-Job functions. They work OK, but there are...
2018-12-17
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Tips for Attending a SQL Saturday
Matt (blog | twitter) is preparing for his first SQL Saturday presentation next weekend in Washington, DC. He’s asked:
I wanted to get an idea of some good, bad, and...
2018-11-29
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PASS Summit 2018 - A Lesson in Personal Branding
Last year at PASS Summit 2017, I heard a number of comments related to people not recognizing me without the hat in my social media photo/avatar. The linked post...
2018-11-28
PASS Summit 2018 - Photos
My album of people and events at Summit 2018. Somehow a number of photo opportunities were missed!
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2018-11-19
Copying Individual Tables with dbatools
@SQLMonkeyNYC asked on Twitter this morning:
#sqlhelp Does anyone have a product that will back up a single table and restore it to another database? Thanks in advance!!
— The SQL...
2018-11-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #108 - Learning Tech Beyond SQL Server
Malathi Mahadevan (blog|twitter) is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community.
Malathi has asked us to:
Pick one thing you want to learn that...
2018-11-06
PASS Summit: Planting Seeds of Knowledge
On the eve of this year’s PASS Summit, I find myself reflecting on my first Summit in 2012. My employer was generous enough to pay for not only Summit...
2018-11-04
Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Health and Workouts
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
My 2024 in Data: Reading
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
Book Review – Agile Data Warehouse Design
I recently read the book Agile Data Warehouse Design – Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from...
Forums
Need ADF pipeline suggestion to copy 1 million files
I have an ADF pipeline that copies Files from source to destination. Both Source...
Function Defaults
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Question of the Day
Function Defaults
I have created this function in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.AddInt (@one INT, @two INT = 1) RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
RETURN @one + @two
END
How can I call this and invoke the default value for @two? See possible answers