John Sansom

John Sansom (Blog | Twitter) is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) of SQL Server and publisher of the free SQL community ebook DBA JumpStart, an inspiring collection of advice for Data Professionals, written by 20 SQL Server experts. Awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor(MCC) award, John is a prolific blogger and can be found regularly writing about SQL Server and Professional Development over at www.johnsansom.com.

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Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework

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I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...

T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas

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One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....

The Book of Redgate: Hours

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I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...

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Question of the Day

Squared Values

What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022? 

SELECT SQUARE('12')

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