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There are many instances when dates and times don't show up at your doorstep in the format you'd like it to be, nor does the output of a query fit the needs of the people viewing it. One option is to format the data in the application itself. Another opti
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Learn about options to copy a table from one SQL Server database to another including Linked Servers, PowerShell, Integration Services, backup and restore along with the associated performance metrics and completion time.
In this tip we take a look at some of the SQL Server system tables in the msdb database and this can be useful to learn about backups and restores that occurred.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the deployment and management service for Azure. It provides a consistent management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure subscription to help you keep things consistent.
In this series of tips we will look at different ways using temporary data in SQL Server along with examples. In this first part we will cover some reasons for doing this and different types of temporary data stores.
In this tip I want to point out a few of the concepts that I wish I had spent more time researching earlier on in my SQL Server career and provide my reasoning and some links to further reading.
Check out this PowerShell script that will help identify size of the MSDB database as well as the largest table in the database across all of your instances to make decisions on the needed SQL Server maintenance.
In this tip we look at different ways to search SQL Server system objects to find specific strings within stored procedures, triggers, functions and more.
I need way to roll-up multiple rows into one row and one column in SQL Server. I know I can roll-up multiple rows into one row using Pivot, but I need all of the data concatenated into a single column in a single row.
In this tip we look at how we can create a burn down chart using Microsoft Excel. This could be further developed to pull in data from SQL Server to automate the chart creation.
In this tip we look at ways to control the flow of SQL Server stored procedures to make sure things are processed in sequence using T-SQL and PowerShell.
In this tip we'll discuss how we can create an Azure Logic App which is going to be started from an Azure Data Factory pipeline that will refresh a Power BI dataset.
In this tip we look at some SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) configuration settings to think about for memory, processors, storage and performance counters to monitor.
In this tip we look at an example of how to join multiple SharePoint lists to be used as a data source for a SQL Server Reporting Services report for a SQL Server End of Support Report.
This article will focus on storing the SQL Server database files outside of the container in a directory on the host machine which is running the docker image.
