ROUND() is a well-known function in SQL Server. Most of us know only that two parameters can be used like ROUND(99,95, 2). This will do standard mathematical up/down rounding of numbers in the first parameter for the number of decimal…
If you have installed Visual Studio 2019 you are probably missing project type for Microsoft BI stack like Reporting Services Project Type, Analysis and Integration Services project type. You are surprised because during the installation you have setup also SQL…
Creating backups of user databases from an on-premise environment to Azure Blob Storage is an easy task. You need to configure Storage Account in Azure where your database backups will be sent. Then you can reference this newly created storage…
It’s confusing that developers are still doing fails when using CHECK, NOCHECK and WITH CHECK/NOCHECK clauses because they don’t know exactly what are differences between them. To be honest, it’s not a very native and clear part of SQL syntax….
Past week we were using tool for scanning database metadata across all our production servers and at one of them the tool captured following error when trying to access one of the databases: After some searching and investigating detail about…
Concatenating strings in T-SQL
1. 4. 2019
It may look like an easy task to concatenate string in T-SQL at the first look. But it still has some hidden points where beginners are failing most of the time. There are a few very important things to remember…
If there is a need to move data between local SQL Server instances (on-premise) and Azure SQL Databases we can use Azure Data Factory. But it isn’t the ideal solution all the time: it’s paid in some scenarios and not…
One friends called me yesterday that he can’t believe what’s happening to him: he is saving various strings to table and to check if the string already exists he is generating hashes using SHA2_256 algorithm. But today he has seen…
Power BI Report Server release schedule
20. 2. 2019
Who is using Power BI Report Server in regular production with many users creating and publishing reports in Power BI Desktop is facing one crucial issue: there is regular monthly release for Power BI desktop but releases for Report Server…
Comparing strings with trailing spaces
20. 2. 2019
There is all the time confusion in developer’s daily job how exactly is SQL Server handling padding spaces before and after strings in comparison and data persistence. Time to make it more clear now. Few most important things to remember…