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Masking Test Data With REGEXP_REPLACE in SQL Server 2025

April 13, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Master Data Services, SQL Data Storage

Before a production copy reaches a developer, replace the real emails and phone numbers. Here is a small, checked way to do it with REGEXP_REPLACE.

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Get-AzureStorageBlob: The Remote Server Returned an Error: (403) Forbidden. HTTP Status Code: 403 - HTTP Error Message: This Request is Not Authorized to Perform This Operation

Get-AzureStorageBlob: The Remote Server Returned an Error: (403) Forbidden. HTTP Status Code: 403 – HTTP Error Message: This Request is Not Authorized to Perform This Operation

April 9, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Computer Network, PowerShell, SQL Azure, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Data Storage, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

A runbook cleaning old backup blobs in Azure failed with (403) Forbidden: This request is not authorized to perform this operation. Here is the fix.

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Recent Rows Only: A Filtered Index for the Data Everyone Reads

March 21, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Data Warehousing, Master Data Services, SQL Data Storage, SQL Index

A filtered index for recent rows is small and fast, but its date never moves by itself. Here is how to build it, test it and keep it fresh.

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SSMS - Azure Storage Error - A Connection Attempt Failed Because the Connected Party did not Properly Respond After a Period of Time

SSMS – Azure Storage Error – A Connection Attempt Failed Because the Connected Party did not Properly Respond After a Period of Time

January 28, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Computer Network, SQL Azure, SQL Data Storage, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

SSMS could not open Azure Storage: a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond. Here is what caused it.

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Unable to Set Cloud Witness.

SQL SERVER – Unable to Set Cloud Witness. Error: The Client and Server Cannot Communicate, Because They do Not Possess a Common Algorithm

January 4, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Cloud Computing, PowerShell, SQL Azure, SQL Data Storage, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

Adding a cloud witness to my cluster failed: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm. I share the fix that worked.

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How to Grow All Files in a File Group Equally? – TRACE FLAG 1117 – Interview Question of the Week #201

November 25, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Data Storage, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB, TraceFlags

How do you grow all files in a file group equally? The answer is Trace Flag 1117, plus the AutoGrow option that SQL Server 2016 brought for filegroups.

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Index Key Size Limits: 900 and 1,700 Bytes Explained

September 26, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Data Storage, SQL Error Messages, SQL Index, SQL Server

Check index key size against the 900-byte clustered and 1,700-byte nonclustered limits, then narrow keys without losing query semantics.

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