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Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven’t been any videos in a while. If you are...
2020-07-16
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Bert Wagner
3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Using Entity Framework
Coming from a SQL developer background these few inner workings of Entity Framework caught me by surprise.
2020-06-05 (first published: 2016-05-17)
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Using Python And NetworkX To Build A Twitter Follower Recommendation Engine
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. This week, I want to share my process for analyzing Twitter. Specifically, I want to find who all of my friends follow on...
2020-01-14 (first published: 2020-01-07)
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Using Python And NetworkX To Build A Twitter Follower Recommendation Engine
Watch this week's video on YouTube
This week, I want to share my process for analyzing Twitter. Specifically, I want to find who all of my friends follow on Twitter...
2020-01-07
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Using Python And NetworkX To Build A Twitter Follower Recommendation Engine
Watch this week's video on YouTube
This week, I want to share my process for analyzing Twitter. Specifically, I want to find who all of my friends follow on Twitter...
2020-01-07
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SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements? As you might have guessed, the first conversion truncates the value,...
2019-12-17
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SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements?
DECLARE @val_varchar varchar(3) = '100';
DECLARE @val_bigint bigint = 100;
DECLARE @val_tinyint tinyint = 100;
PRINT('varchar...
2019-12-17
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SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements?
DECLARE @val_varchar varchar(3) = '100';
DECLARE @val_bigint bigint = 100;
DECLARE @val_tinyint tinyint = 100;
PRINT('varchar...
2019-12-17
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When a SQL UPDATE Statement DELETES Rows
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. At first I wasn’t going to write this post. I thought it would be too simple. Then I watched two experienced SQL developers...
2019-12-09 (first published: 2019-11-26)
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Azure SQL vs Azure Table Storage
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A year ago I built an app to keep track of pickup volleyball game scores and payments. It works well, but after a...
2019-12-03
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Blogs
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech
By Steve Jones
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs...
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
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