When Microsoft announced STRING_SPLIT, cries of joy and jubilation could be heard all around the offices of SQL Undercover. For those of you who aren't aware of this miracle of the database world, we've finally got a way of converting a delimited string into a table. If you've ever written a proc or script where you... Continue Reading →
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few years I'm sure that you've all heard of that mystical world that is Azure and some of us may even know people who have visited that land but how do we get there ourselves? Well don't worry my fair database folk, there's no need... Continue Reading →
Database mirroring has been deprecated since SQL Server version 2012 and now with the advent of SQL 2016 SP1 which happens to include two node Always On in Standard edition, surely there's no place in the World for it, right? Consider this scenario for a moment, you've got a 2TB database that lives on Server... Continue Reading →
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