Tracy Boggiano hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, on the topic of SQL Server on Linux:
I noticed a common theme in how easy it is to install SQL on Linux that tells me if you didn’t think you had time to install SQL on Linux then you probably do and should give a try in the near future.
Thanks for all that participated!
Let me put it this way: one of my employees, who had never really worked with SQL Server before, got SQL Server on Linux installed through Docker in about 15 minutes. It’s really easy to do.
Mohammad Darab has a roundup for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday:
It was an absolute honor to host this month’s TSQL Tuesday. I decided on doing the “Dear 20 year old self” as a way for us to reflect on life. It seemed like this topic hit home with a lot of people. I enjoyed reading each one of the posts.
If you don’t find your post in this Round Up, please email me your link and I will update this post!
There were 14 responses this month; click through for the full set.
Matthew McGiffen wraps up another T-SQL Tuesday:
Here’s my round-up for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday.
Thanks to everyone who contributed last week. It was great reading your posts and seeing the different ways you interpreted the puzzle theme.
We had real-life problems, we had SQL coding questions, we had puzzles, we had solutions, we had games, and we had the imaginarium.
Click through for thirteen blog posts.
Kenneth Fisher shares a couple of interview puzzles:
The year is 2004. You’re taking a tech test as an interview for a SQL development job. They have a page in their application that displays up to 20 rows of information. They need a piece of code that will return the rows from a given page. Oh, and it may not always be 20 rows per page. You need to write a piece of code where they can pass in a page number and page size and get back results. So for example, if the page size is 20 and the page is 3 then you need to return back rows 41 to 60.
The answers aren’t on the page, but then again, that’s the point of a puzzle.
Bert Wagner has fun with SSMS:
As a kid, I found Magic 8 Balls alluring. There is something appealing about a who-knows-how-many-sides die emerging from the depths of a mysterious inky blue fluid to help answers life’s most difficult questions.
I never ended up buying a magic eight ball of my own though, so today I’m going to build and animate one in SQL Server Management Studio.
Now you can finally answer those important life questions without leaving Management Studio.
Todd Kleinhans takes us through T-SQL Tuesday #113:
Wow, we had a variety of responses to the April 2019 topic of “What Do YOU Use Databases For?”
I think the overall response to the question and the theme is both mixed and varied.
I have been struggling with the personal use of databases for a long time. Things I wish would have been easier but seems to just get more complicated over time. Ever heard of GDPR? Although we think we have absolute control and access to data about ourselves, we really do not. The right to be forgotten is NOT the same as having access to all of the data about ourselves in all of the systems before they disappear. Sometimes companies will delete your data about you before you ask.
Todd starts out with an essay and then moves on to the roundup.
Shane O’Neill has a roundup of T-SQL Tuesday #112:
I’m going to keep this intro short and sweet. I’d like to say it’s because I know these roundups are for acknowledging and thanking the people who have contributed, and this is the case! Mainly though it’s because I wrote this bit last and I’ve already written… checks … 2,795 words!
So thank you one and all for participating. I’ve never thought the posts would raise feelings of happiness, sadness, thoughtfulness, and appreciative-ness that this one has.
Read on for the full list and Shane’s thoughts.
Andy Leonard wants to know your “why”:
The T-SQL Tuesday question this month: Why do you do what you do? I was honored to be asked by Steve Jones to serve as host. Thanks, Steve!
Although I should not be, I am surprised by the response. We are part of an awesome and enduring Community. There were 35 responses to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday!
That’s a lot of reading to do.
Cathrine Wilhelmsen shows us you can do a lot more with Biml than just generating SSIS packages:
This actually happened to me in a previous job. We had a fairly complex ETL solution for the most critical part of our Data Warehouse. Many SSIS packages, views, and stored procedures queried the tables that were replicas of the source system tables. One day, we found out that the source system would be deploying a new version of their database the following day. In every single table, some columns were removed, others added, and many changed data types.
Oh.
There was no way that we could manually update all our SSIS packages, views, and stored procedures in less than a day. Thousands of users depended on our solution. It was too late to pause the source system changes.
Oh.
That story ends up with a happy ending.
Jess Pomfret takes us on a journey to a desired state:
PowerShell DSC is a platform to support the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It uses declarative syntax instead of the usual imperative syntax of PowerShell. This means that you describe your desired state rather than the specific steps needed to get there. There are two modes for DSC, push and pull, although pull mode offers more features and scalability, we’ll look at writing our configuration and using push mode for this blog post to keep it simple.
This post covers initial installation and some of the initial configuration, so check it out if you’re new to DSC.
Kevin Feasel
2019-07-18
Linux, T-SQL Tuesday
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