The 5 Scariest Moments for a SQL Server Developer
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While families and friends are scaring each other this Halloween week with stories of ghosts and ghouls, I thought it'd be way scarier to talk...
2018-10-30
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Bert Wagner
Unexpected Shorthand Date Implicit Conversions
I do my best work in the mornings. Evenings are pretty good too once I get a second wind.
Late afternoon...
2018-10-30 (first published: 2018-10-23)
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Conditionally Returning Rows Based On Query Results
While I normally prefer formatting my query results in a downstream app/reporting layer, sometimes I can’t get around adding some...
2018-10-29 (first published: 2018-10-16)
2,654 reads
Unexpected Shorthand Date Implicit Conversions
I do my best work in the mornings. Evenings are pretty good too once I get a second wind.
Late afternoon are my nemesis for getting any serious technical or...
2018-10-23
5 reads
Unexpected Shorthand Date Implicit Conversions
I do my best work in the mornings. Evenings are pretty good too once I get a second wind.
Late afternoon are my nemesis for getting any serious technical or...
2018-10-23
7 reads
The Project Graveyard
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #107 prompt by Jeff Mlakar. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-10-18 (first published: 2018-10-09)
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Conditionally Returning Rows Based On Query Results
Watch this week's video on YouTube
While I normally prefer formatting my query results in a downstream app/reporting layer, sometimes I can't get around adding some business formatting logic to...
2018-10-16
5 reads
Conditionally Returning Rows Based On Query Results
Watch this week's video on YouTube
While I normally prefer formatting my query results in a downstream app/reporting layer, sometimes I can't get around adding some business formatting logic to...
2018-10-16
52 reads
Power BI Dashboards, Reports, and Datasets with the SQL Chefs
This week I had the opportunity to learn about dashboards, reports, and datasets in Power BI using the best kind...
2018-10-11 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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The Project Graveyard
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #107 prompt by Jeff Mlakar. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2018-10-09
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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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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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