(Latest Version 1.8 - 23 November 2020) I'm sure we've all been there, we need to restore a database to 11:34am, four days ago. What's the first step? To go off hunting down the relevant full and differential backups and then figure out what transaction logs we need to play in and in what order.... Continue Reading →
Here's a little something that came up the other day, we've got a couple of tables which we need to join together but there's no common key to join on. How do we go about attacking this? As an example consider the following, we've got two comma delimited strings that we need to join together.... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Check out Generate a Random Number for Each Row in a Query {a better way} for an alternative method that I now use for generating random numbers using CRYPT_GEN_RANDOM Here's a lunchtime quickie for you all, this is something that I've seen asked on the forums plenty of times and always gets some quite... 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 →
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