Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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“But NOLOCK won’t hurt me if I’m using an index!”
NOLOCK is bad and you probably shouldn't use it, but every time I mention that publicly, the pushback just keeps coming. I don't know why people so firmly believe that their situation couldn't possibly be affected by bad/random data from NOLOCK.
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Using Friendly Names for SQL Servers via DNS
At my organization, servers have a very cryptic name or a name where you can’t immediately tell the function. For instance, Amazon is the name of the SQL Server which our SharePoint uses as a back-end and Nile is the SQL Server hosting the databases for our HR application. This isn’t intuitive and it makes upgrading the servers a challenge because we always have to go back and touch the applications
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Kellyn talks about the four golden rules when adding AI features to existing applications and systems.
Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025
Learn about Optimized Locking in the latest versions of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers