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8 Ways To Be Successful With Microsoft Azure SQL Database
When I hear stories about folks that tried to migrate to Microsoft Azure SQL Database with a brute-force-single-click and failed, I ask several follow up questions. I have found a common pattern in the...
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SQL SERVER – Event 17058 – initerrlog: Could not Open Error Log File
If you have ever interacted with me or taken my services, you would notice that I always ask for ERRORLOG in almost all of my contact with my client. Once of my friend contacted me and when I asked for...
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SQL SERVER – Error: 14258 – Cannot perform this operation while...
One of my clients asked assistance in fixing an interesting issue. They informed me that they are not able to run any job in SQL Agent. When they try to run the job manually, they are seeing below...
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Does Dropping Clustered Index Drop Primary Key on the Same Column? –...
Question: When we drop clustered index on the column, does it automatically drop primary key on the same column (if created)?Answer: This is a second follow up question I often get after earlier...
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What is the Lambda Architecture?
Lambda architecture is a data-processing architecture designed to handle massive quantities of data (i.e. “Big Data”) by using both batch-processing and stream-processing methods. This idea is to...
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BIT9 PathNames
We live in a day and age when security (data, network, server, etc) is seemingly at the forefront of the daily news. In our quest to improve security we seemingly always find more and more products...
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I’m speaking at Live! 360 Orlando
I’ll be speaking at Live! 360 Orlando, December 5-9. Surrounded by your fellow industry professionals, Live! 360 provides you with immediately usable training and education that will help make you the...
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Managing Members in a Power BI Group Workspace
As discussed in my post about Sharing and Security in Power BI, a group workspace in Power BI is our best option currently for organizing content by subject area, and/or by security boundaries. Members...
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Install SQL Server Management Studio 2016 – SQL in Sixty Seconds #080
Earlier this week, I have published a blog post where I explained how to install SQL Server 2016. One of the most asked questions was Where is SQL Server Management Studio 2016? I totally understand...
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#0380 – SQL Server – Basics – Specify Scale and Precision when defining...
Do we know why it is a best practice for ensuring data quality to always specify a precision and scale when working with variables of the numeric or decimal data types?
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Slash star, dash dash: Be obsessive about comments
I’m working on a new session* that I’ve named “T-SQL’s Hidden Support Feature”. It’s about comments. I’ll get to the reasons why I’m writing and presenting an hour long session on /* */ and — a bit...
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SQL Saturday San Antonio #550
SQL Saturday San Antonio #550This weekend I am heading north to the great city of San Antonio, TX. I am excited to see what the organizers have put together for us. This is the first time San Antonio...
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Disk Space GUI Tool – Multi Server(s) – Grid and Email Output
Monitoring server resources is critical and important job of any Administrator. Keeping things organized might improve application availability and server availability. Being a database administrator...
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Uncommon SQL Server Data Types
In this article we’re going to go over a uncommon SQL server data types. These are those you won’t use every day, but you’ll want to know if you take the 70-461 exam.Even if you don’t plan on taking...
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Audit All Select Statements
Legislation and regulation sometimes dictates that certain activities must be tracked within a database. On occasion, it will be required that queries be audited and tracked to reach compliance with...
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Removing Duplicate Statistics
It’s a SQL Server best practice to have Auto Create Statistics enabled on your databases. When this is on, SQL Server will create statistics on single columns when it needs them. However if someone...
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Install SQL Server 2016 Sample Database WideWorldImporters – SQL in Sixty...
I have been a very loyal user to sample database AdventureWorks for a while, I really liked the overall database. However, as we know SQL Server releases, new features every year and along with the new...
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Azure: What’s the difference between SQL Database and SQL Server?
If you want to blog T-SQL Tuesday is a great way to get started. On the first Tuesday of each month (or possibly a bit earlier as in this case) someone presents a blogging idea. Everyone who wants to...
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Handling 404–Not Found Errors With Web.Contents() In Power Query And Power BI
One strange feature of the Web.Contents() function in Power Query and Power BI is that it doesn’t respond in a consistent way to the standard error handling techniques used in M. I don’t know if this...
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It’s the cloud, it’s highly available. Do I need to worry about HA and DR?
Short answer: Yes.While yes the cloud is highly available and services that are taking offline due to hardware failures, host server reboots due to patching, etc. can your application survive being...
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