COUNT, DISTINCT, and NULLs
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One thing I see fairly often (and am occasionally guilty of myself) is using COUNT(DISTINCT) and DISTINCT interchangeably to get an idea of the...
2019-02-19
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Bert Wagner
Parsing HTML in SQL Server
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Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few seconds my brain processed...
2019-02-12
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Parsing HTML in SQL Server
Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few...
2019-02-12
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Parsing HTML in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few seconds my brain processed...
2019-02-12
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Why make?
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #111 prompt by Andy Leonard. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2019-02-12
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Why make?
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #111 prompt by Andy Leonard. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2019-02-12
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Optimizing for Ad Hoc Workloads
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The execution plan cache is a great feature: after SQL Server goes through the effort...
2019-02-07 (first published: 2019-01-22)
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Automating Database Maintenance with Jess Pomfret and dbatools
dbatools is one of the coolest community projects I’ve seen – it is amazing how many commands are available to help...
2019-02-05
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Automating Database Maintenance with Jess Pomfret and dbatools
Watch this week's video on YouTube
dbatools is one of the coolest community projects I've seen - it is amazing how many commands are available to help make managing your...
2019-02-05
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Automating Database Maintenance with Jess Pomfret and dbatools
Watch this week's video on YouTube
dbatools is one of the coolest community projects I've seen - it is amazing how many commands are available to help make managing your...
2019-02-05
5 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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