How to fix your terribly slow SQL job
How many times have you written a program, ETL, analysis job, etc… that seemed like it would never finish running?
Although poor performance can be caused in a multitude of...
2017-05-02
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How many times have you written a program, ETL, analysis job, etc… that seemed like it would never finish running?
Although poor performance can be caused in a multitude of...
2017-05-02
11 reads
This story originally appeared in Hacker Noon on March 11, 2017.
A code refactor always leaves me with a feeling of accomplishment. Although major refactorings are the most satisfying, every...
2017-04-25
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This story originally appeared in Hacker Noon on February 10, 2017.
I can't tell you the number of times the title of this post has crossed my mind as I...
2017-04-18
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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 SQL users to share ideas about...
2017-04-11
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Last night I had the privilege to present to the Ohio North SQL Server User Group about JSON in SQL Server 2016. There was a great crowd present (they...
2017-04-05
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Parsing, creating, and modifying JSON in SQL Server 2016 is really easy. JSON dates and times are not.
Coming from a predominantly SQL background, the JSON DateTime format took some...
2017-03-28
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The other afternoon I ran into some nightmarish debugging with the following code:
private static void StartThreads()
{
var values = new List<int>() { 1, 2, 3 };
...
2017-03-21
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Every once in a while I hear of some technologist say that relational databases are dead; instead, a non-table based NoSQL storage format is the way of the future....
2017-03-14
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This post is a reference of my examples for processing JSON data in SQL Server. For more detailed explanations of these functions, please see my post series on JSON...
2017-03-07
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This is the fourth article in my series about learning how to use SQL Server 2016's new JSON functions. If you haven't already, you can read Part 1?—?Parsing JSON,...
2017-02-21
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By James Serra
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers,...
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions....
By Steve Jones
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than...
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I have this data in a table?
CatIDCatName 3MonitorsWhat is returned when I run this code?
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