Eitan Blumin

Eitan Blumin is a SQL Server database expert and a senior consultant at Madeira Data Solutions. He has many years of experience in all fields of SQL Server (since the year 2005), including but not limited to: Database design, management, development, tuning, replication, backup management, security management, SSIS, SSRS, encryption, disaster recovery and more.
Eitan also has 10 years of experience in ASP web development, and some experience in a wide variety of development environments such as PHP, C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Perl, Assembler, Powershell and more.

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SQL Server Source Control on a $0 Budget

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The Source Control Dilemma Every DBA has been there. Trying to keep track of...

CHOOSE’ing a Beer: #SQLNewBlogger

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We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it...

Don’t Treat Your Data Catalog Like a Data Museum

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Introduction Treating your data catalog like a “data museum”—a static collection where information quietly...

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Forums

Fantasy Football 2025

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

The thread for the league in 2025. Players from last year have priority.

String or Binary Truncation Error Strange Behavior (SQL 2019)

By DB_Newbie2007

Forgot I posted a similar issue back in 2020, String or Binary Truncation Error...

Transactional Replication from Read replica

By cooldude001

If I have Read replica (in Azure SQL MI), can it be used as...

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Question of the Day

Replacing a Null

What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?

DECLARE @value INT = NULL;
SELECT ISNULL(@value, 100.5) AS Result;

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