The purpose of a foreign key is to ensure data integrity by making sure that data added to a child table actually exists in the parent table and preventing...
2020-11-09 (first published: 2020-11-02)
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The term DevOps gets horribly abused. Don’t get me started on all the weird additions to it like DevSecOps. No, I just mean the term itself gets beaten up quite a lot. It’s to the point where people are starting to shy away from talking about it. I’ve even changed my approach when discussing DevOps […]
2020-10-24
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Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is out of town at the PASS Summit. Grant looks at disasters and being prepared.
2020-10-20 (first published: 2016-10-24)
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A lot of stored procedures have multiple statements and determining the most costly statement in a given proc is a very common task. After all, you want to focus...
2020-10-19 (first published: 2020-10-12)
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With all the stuff going on around the world over the last year, maintaining some degree of mental stability can be quite a challenge. Speaking only for myself, while...
2020-10-09 (first published: 2020-10-05)
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I love questions. Most of all, I love questions I can answer. I spotted this question recently: How can I use Profiler to capture execution plans for queries over...
2020-10-05 (first published: 2020-09-28)
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I was contacted by Stellar Info quite a while ago. They asked me to try out their software. I said yes, but I was really bad about getting it...
2020-10-01 (first published: 2020-09-23)
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I'm learning how to be a net controller for a high frequency (HF) radio network. Nets are a fun way to make lots of contacts quickly. Taking part in a net is simple. You check in with the net control and then you can answer calls or make calls (different nets have different rules). It's […]
2020-09-26
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Today we have a guest editorial where Grant talks about being effective and practical in your world.
2020-09-17
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Being prepared for things to go wrong is important, more so these days than in much of our past.
2020-09-04
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Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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