DBA 101: Altering a column
People always ask me what tools I use. Mostly this question comes from the topic of monitoring. I can honestly...
2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
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People always ask me what tools I use. Mostly this question comes from the topic of monitoring. I can honestly...
2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
2,221 reads
Foreign keys are an interesting feature of relational databases. They help enforce data integrity, sometimes help improve performance by eliminating...
2017-01-05 (first published: 2016-12-30)
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I’ve been in technology for twenty years now. I’ve seen hundreds of environments, nearly 300 while employed at Microsoft alone.
One...
2016-12-30
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I recently worked on a project for fraud. This project needed to relate 67 million accounts to one another “Kevin...
2016-12-27
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I was building out a blog post about cardinality today and noticed that sys.dm_exec_query_stats was getting cleared my my Surface...
2016-12-27 (first published: 2016-12-08)
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I was recently asked to help tune a stored procedure that has been historically taking between 55 and 60 seconds...
2016-12-15 (first published: 2016-11-30)
4,388 reads
I’ve managed to get my hands on a Nintendo NES Classic and I’m going to give it away. The details...
2016-12-13
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If you’re a DBA or a developer chances are you’ve looked at a query plan or two. While looking at...
2016-11-23 (first published: 2016-11-18)
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If you’re a DBA or database developer, chances are you will have to write or rewrite queries from time to...
2016-11-14 (first published: 2016-11-10)
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Let me start by saying that this isn’t your typical post about the Halloween problem. This is intended to describe...
2016-10-31
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By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
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On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers