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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
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
By SQLPals
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files? xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a...
Happy Thanksgiving! (USA Holiday)
By Brian Kelley
In the United States, today is Thanksgiving. The intent behind the holiday is to...
Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS
SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you...
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