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Set aside regular time to pursue an activity you love

I also have a thread at SQLServerCentral dealing with coping mechanisms and resources. Feel free to participate.

For many of you out there working in a new way, I'm including a thought of the day on how to cope in this challenging time from The Action for Happiness Coping Calendar. My items will be on my blog, feel free to share yours.

Increasing the Accuracy of Data We Rely On

When I was a kid, we used physical maps and verbal directions. That, with a good memory and sense of direction helped me navigate across the US on my bike and through many cities in Europe on my bicycle.

Near the turn of the millennium, we got a number of mapping sites, like MapQuest, which were really designed to replace a paper map with a route drawn in. Since then, the capabilities of GPS combined with the advances of mobile phone OS and app improvements, much of the world depends on GPS working correctly.

The GPS systems, of which there are many run by different governments, have been in place for years, and have been upgraded at different times. The US government is looking to upgrade GPS (their system) with GPS III, with stronger signals and a longer lifespan. There are a few other items, better security among them.

There is a lot of GPS data that many of us take for granted. We may not worry about the actual data values, but we may use apps or include integration with services like Google Maps or Apple Maps, and we depend on this data being accurate and available.

There could be similar types of data that our applications and systems need, where availability, accuracy, and more affect the usefulness and value of some application. I think things like master data and data classification fall into these areas. The problem is that often those projects, or the idea of a project, don't have a large government agency with a big budget working on them. As a result, they rarely move forward.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Simple Credential Management for DevOps Database Release to Azure SQL Database

Steve Jones - SSC Editor from SQLServerCentral

This article looks a couple options for securely storing credentials when working in Azure DevOps.

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SQL Server Backup Types

Additional Articles from SimpleTalk

One of the most important responsibilities for a DBA is to ensure that a database can be restored in case of corruption, a dropped table, or another disaster. In this article, Greg Larsen explains the different types of backups available with SQL Server.

From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Power BI Monthly Digest – November 2020

Devin Knight from Devin Knight

In this month’s Power BI Digest Matt and I will again guide you through some of the latest and greatest Power BI updates this month.

From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Azure Stack and Azure Arc for data services

James Serra from James Serra's Blog

For those companies that can’t yet move to the cloud, have certain workloads that can’t move to the cloud, or have limited to no internet access, Microsoft has options...

 

 Question of the Day

Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):

 

HA in General Purpose Managed Instance

How is high availability handled in the General Purpose tier of Azure SQL Managed Instance in Nov 2020?

Think you know the answer? Click here, and find out if you are right.

 

 

 Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor)

The TUF File

What is a .tuf file in SQL Server?

Answer: This is the Transaction Undo File for log shipping

Explanation: This is the Transaction Undo File used in log shipping. Ref:

Discuss this question and answer on the forums

 

 

 

Database Pros Who Need Your Help

Here's a few of the new posts today on the forums. To see more, visit the forums.


SQL Server 2017 - Administration
SQL Server Collations - So can anybody tell me if they have experienced issues when running a SQL instance level collation at Latin1_General_CI_AS when any of their databases on that instance run under SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. Am I correct in saying the SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS is the 'old style' collation? The reason I ask is that we have been installing a new environment […]
Event Notifications - Can these be set up to monitor for changes to table data? - Hello, I'm new to using Event Notifications, but it is my understanding that they can be helpful for monitoring a variety of different events. Can these also be used to help audit changes to table data?  For example, if someone were to add a new record to a table, or update an existing one?
IndicatorsPool events causing memory pressure? - Hi, We are running a system on SQLServer 2017 Enterprise (RTM-CU22) with 839GB of memory. I think we appear to be experiencing some memory pressure as we seem to have plans dropping from the cache and I can see various clock-hands running (including CACHESTORE_OBJCP – EXTERNAL and CACHESTORE_SQLCP – EXTERNAL). When I check the Memory […]
SQL Server 2017 - Development
running openquery with local database and server credentials - Hi guys, I have an application that can only call views:  The data it needs to access is from a stored procedure that uses temp tables so the only way to call the data is by using OPENQUERY CREATE VIEW [dbo].[myView] AS SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(LocalServerName, 'EXEC LocalDatabaseName.dbo.mySproc') GO in OPENQUERY the Servername and Databasename […]
SQL Server 2016 - Administration
error while running Replication - Has anyone faced this error Agent message code 20037. The process could not bulk copy into table '"dbo" Source: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0 Number: Message: The system cannot find the file specified.
Development - SQL Server 2014
date Different - I have table with : if today is 25/11/2020, then i need to retrive ID 5 because nearst date to today WeekDate is: 1/12/2020 then when today date is: 10/12/2020  script must retrieve ID 6   i tried the below but it is not working,  please need help DATEDIFF(d, WeekDate, CONVERT(datetime, @CurrentDate, 103)) >= 0
SQL Server 2012 - T-SQL
Points of consedering during "Transaction Processing" - Hello Everyone, Here I need suggestions while I am trying to do some transaction in sql. I am using  "Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) - 12.0.2000.8 Oct 1 2020 18:48:35". I am getting data from On-premises data-sources using Azure Logic App (recurrence). The logic app insert the data in my some of tables lets suppose tableHR, […]
SQL Server 2019 - Administration
Query SSISDB For Components - Evening All, I want to identify all SSIS packages deployed into SSISDB that contain a specific component. We have over 5000 pacakges deployed (and closer to 100,000 accross other servers) and I am looking to identify some packages that contain certain components -- one being the FTP task, and another some of the Azure Tasks. […]
Sql Server Specs Question - Hi, I have two different servers that I do a bulk insert on the exact same text file. One will take 3 hours to do a bulk insert on the file and the other one will take about 45 minutes. Is it due to the specs on the server itself or is there something I […]
SQL Server 2019 - Development
Primary Key/Foreign Key Same Field in 1:1 Relationship? - Hello~ DB Design question -- say I have a primary table, tCompanies, where the primary key is CompanyID. And I have another table, say tCompanyMetrics, where every field in that table has a one to one relationship with CompanyID. In tCompanyMetrics, do I need both a primary key field and a foreign key field?  Cannot […]
Run Azure Automation Runbook Against DB Hosted on an Azure VM - Hi - has anyone created a PowerShell runbook which connects to a database hosted on an Azure VM?  This is a new environment, so we allow internal traffic to flow freely, so i dont think it is a firewall issue.  If i add the port number to the server name i receive an error 0. […]
Azure Data Factory
Setting variable in Pipeline - Hi all, I’m wondering if someone can help us out here as we are going round in circles. In short we are trying to; 1.       Read a value from a SQL table via a stored procedure in a lookup task. 2.       We want to use that value to set a variable so we can use […]
Reporting Services
Variable Based on Variable in Paginated Report w/ Native Oracle Connection - I have an SSRS paginated report where users need the ability to pick and choose which variables they want the report run with. For example, the query looks something like: SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE 1=1 AND CUSTOMER_NUMBER = ? AND CUSTOMER_STATE = ? The users need the ability to plug in a CUSTOMER_NUMBER parameter […]
Powershell
when use dbachecks, it has error: unable to find type [Pester.outputtypes] - hi there: When I type invoke-dbcCheck, it pops up error below: Unable to find type [Pester.otuputTypes] any help?   cheers   Hui
Job Postings
Operations Engineer with strong SQL skills based in Reno, remote (US) or Toronto - We are looking for an Operations Engineer with strong SQL skills, based in Reno, remote (US) or Toronto. This is an Operations-focused role at a SaaS company. We see this role sitting between Level 3 Support and development teams. More details here: https://careers.karbonhq.com/operations-engineer Must have: solid SQL Server skills with prior experience working on live […]
 

 

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