Clear your calendars! The long-awaited webinar about CI and CD with SSDT finally has new dates! Yes, I said dates as in plural. It’s going to be a 2-parter! November 28th and December 4th, hosted at the #PASS Global Hebrew Virtual Group.
Last week, I called up Matan Yungman, and offered to replace Guy Glantser as a co-host in SQL Server Radio, while Guy is away on holiday in New Zealand.
We recorded episode 111 in English, and episode 117 in Hebrew.
Check them out!
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, the webinar had to be delayed to a later date. I’ll post an update as soon as a new date will be scheduled.
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, Kevin Chant asked us to dream up our fantasy SQL Server feature. I love this topic and so I had to join in on this as a late (and first-time) contributor.
My ask from Microsoft for SQL Server is something that…. Well… It should be simple. It should’ve been implemented YEARS ago. I’m thinking somewhere around the year 2005.
Read More »T-SQL Tuesday #118 – I wish SQL Server had better Table Partitioning
On October 7th, I delivered my presentation about Advanced Dynamic Search Queries at the Israeli Data Platform Meetup, at Microsoft Reactor Tel-Aviv!
Watch here.
Looking for a way to send calendar event invitations from within SQL Server?
Did you try that one hack where you use sp_send_dbmail to generate an ics attachment file, and then found that it’s still not being identified as a calendar event in the e-mail program?
Then fret no more, my friends, because I’ve been there, and out of sheer desperation of not being able to find a properly working solution, I’ve decided to build one myself. And now it’s available for your wide consumption as an open source project!
Read More »New open source project: Send calendar invites from within SQL Server
I know this has little to do with SQL Server (and therefore, not quite like me to post this), but it’s a nifty little script in Powershell which I’ve been working on recently, and I believe other people may find use for it as well (someone, somewhere, maybe?).
This script basically takes a Trello JSON file (created using their Export feature), connects to a GitHub repository, and creates one GitHub issue per each Trello card. Any labels are copied over, any checklists in the Trello card will be added into the issue body as checklists, and any attachments in the Trello card will be added into the issue body as an unordered list of links. Finally, at the bottom of the issue’s body there would be a link back to the original Trello card.
Read More »Import GitHub Issues from Trello Cards using Powershell
I’ve published a new open-source project in my GitHub account, dubbed “sp_GenerateTableDDLScript“.
This is basically a stored procedure that can be used to generate a CREATE TABLE script in T-SQL for a given table in Microsoft SQL Server.
Suppose we’re running one or more dynamic SQL commands in SQL Server, and we’re getting an error from somewhere within it.
But, to make things interesting, let’s suppose that we’re running a large number of such dynamic SQL commands within a loop, each constructed a bit differently, and we’re finding it difficult to pinpoint which of the dynamic commands is causing the error, and which SQL statement it is exactly.
Could we, perhaps, print the relevant code section based on the error line reported in the CATCH block?
In this article, we will show you how we implemented a little system to create generic business data based alerts, and show them on Zabbix when needed.
In the first part, Snir will focus on the generic process that will deliver the data you want to Zabbix in case of a problem, and Eitan will explain the steps that need to be taken on the database end of things.