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Historically it's been difficult to accomplish certain tasks in SQL Server.
Probably the most annoying problem I had to do regularly before SQL Server 2012...
2017-07-18
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T-SQL Tuesday #92: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday prompt. T-SQL Tuesday was created by Adam Machanic and is a way for...
2017-07-11
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Temporal Tables are awesome.
They make analyzing time-series data a cinch, and because they automatically track row-level history, rolling-back from an "oops" scenario doesn't mean...
2017-07-04
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SQL in 60 Seconds is a series where I share SQL tips and tricks that you can learn and start using in less than a minute.
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2017-06-27
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It's 4:30 pm on Friday and Mr. Manager comes along to tell you that he needs you to run some important ad-hoc analysis for...
2017-06-20
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Last week I presented my session "DBAs vs Developers: JSON in SQL Server 2016" at the online GroupBy Conference.
As I prepared for the event, I thought about all of...
2017-06-13
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Want to learn more about using JSON in SQL Server? Watch me present at the online GroupBy conference on June 9, 2017 at 8am.
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2017-06-06
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So you've started using temporal tables because they make your point-in-time analysis queries super easy.
Your manager is happy because you're getting historical data to...
2017-05-30
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Have you ever needed to look at what data in a table used to look like?
If you have, it probably took a knuckle-cracking filled...
2017-05-23
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Additional performance comparisons available in an updated post.
Starting with the 2016 release, SQL Server offers native JSON support. Although the implementation is not perfect,...
2017-05-16
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By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
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When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
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