Bill Nicolich

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  • Interests: E-commerce data. Set-based operations. Automation programming. Architecture of public interfaces and private interfaces within classes. Managing complexity. Evolutionary psychology. Classic literature. The author Joseph Conrad. The author Marianne Moore.

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The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection

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I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...

10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives

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Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...

The Book of Redgate: Evidence

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Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?

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Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...

The New World Of AI Robots

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...

Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?

By DaveBriCam

Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...

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Question of the Day

Transaction Log Truncation

In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?

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