Ensuring Each Client has a Full Set of Key-Value Pairs
In this piece, we find out about a business issue that can occur when using key value pairs in your database to describe information about other entities.
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Find and Remove Duplicate Records SQL Server
Learn a quick method to find and remove duplicate records in your SQL Server tables.
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Why should I care and why should the database enforce it? This article from Jamin VanderBerg gives some reasons why the database is the place to enforce rules that ensure integrity.
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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