A really simple bug with SSMS
If you’re a long time IT professional or an occasional user of high or even low tech software you’ll know...
2016-09-28
529 reads
Daniel Janik
Splitting CSV strings in SQL 2016
Up until SQL Server 2016, we had to write our own functions to split a CSV string into a table...
2016-09-15 (first published: 2016-09-08)
2,727 reads
Join me and Kalen Delaney today for 24HOP
I’m excited to be monitoring Kalen’s session on concurrency. The session is today and is titled “Locking, Blocking, Versions: Concurrency...
2016-09-07
346 reads
When should I use a CTE?
If I had a dollar for every CTE solution to a simple query in the forums (pick any SQL forum), I’d...
2016-08-27
772 reads
I’m speaking at SQL Saturday 563 in Dallas
This will be my second time speaking at SQL Saturday in Dallas. My first was last year and it was...
2016-08-25
433 reads
Using PowerShell to find Processor issues & more
One of the top three performance killers for SQL Server is lack of processing power. I’d say that it’s second...
2016-08-18 (first published: 2016-08-11)
2,147 reads
I’m speaking at SQL Saturday 553 in Oklahoma City
This will be my first time speaking in Oklahoma on 8/27 in Oklahoma City. I’ve been to several customers there...
2016-08-16
509 reads
Inside the mind of a c# developer
I’ve been working with SQL Server for 18 years and over that long span I’ve seen a lot of different...
2016-08-10
617 reads
Off-Topic: Phone number spoofing. Why is this still a thing?
A bit of history
Long ago there were such things called diverters. The phone company used them so employees could dial...
2016-07-29
901 reads
SQL Server 2016 FK operator bug?
I recently read an a blog on MSDN that covered new features for the query optimizer in SQL Server 2016....
2016-07-29 (first published: 2016-07-25)
2,027 reads
Blogs
Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
By Steve Jones
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No...
Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
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Question of the Day
Azure SQL Database MAXDOP
When Azure SQL Database was originally released, the MAXDOP was set to 0 for each new database. In Oct 2025, what is the default value for Azure SQL databases?
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