Answer the Question Asked
“Bill, are you running SQL R2 on your desktop?”
This seems like a simple enough question, yet I usually cannot get...
2012-01-13
833 reads
Jen McCown
DBAs@Midnight 6 week roundup
We’ve been awfully busy these last few weeks, what with holidays and work and whatnot. But that hasn’t stopped us...
2012-01-12
688 reads
SELECT GetDate() – 30 AS [This actually works??];
I just ran across this in a piece of code (that I didn’t write):
… WHERE Thing >GETDATE()- 30
Aaaand it works....
2011-12-19
1,230 reads
PASS Board of Directors – Who I’m Voting For
I was inspired by fellow blogger and all around good guy Nic Cain (Twitter, blog) to write about the PASS BoD...
2011-12-15
665 reads
#SQLLove for my Mentor
In 1986, my big brother Jim accidentally encouraged me on my road to geekdom by purchasing an Apple][e, and later...
2011-12-14
734 reads
SQL Server is Smarter Than You
I had a brief email discussion recently, which could be effectively be boiled down to:
Them: “Are foreign key constraints more...
2011-12-08
839 reads
How to Build a Resume (that doesn’t suck)
Resumes are like opinions, which are like something else: everybody’s got one. And if you don’t have one, then certain...
2011-12-06
3,158 reads
Convince me to read books (WHERE LEN(argument)
While you wait for my awesome upcoming blog on data exception notification with SSRS, let’s pursue a whim of mine.
I...
2011-11-30
1,671 reads
Stop SOPA…it already happened in Denmark #StopSOPA
I put out the call to stop SOPA, and one Twitter friend wrote back:
Good luck! We have it in Denmark....
2011-11-16
550 reads
Un-SQL Friday: Stop SOPA!
This will be an unusually political Un-SQL Friday – and it’s two days early, to boot – but I’m making an exception...
2011-11-15
1,055 reads
Blogs
Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones
By John
One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that...
Monday Monitor Tips: Native Replication Monitoring
By Steve Jones
Redgate Monitor has been able to monitor replication for a long term, but it...
Advice I Like: Art
By Steve Jones
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art...
Forums
Think LSNs Are Unique? Think Again - Preventing Data Loss in CDC ETL
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Think LSNs Are Unique? Think...
The AI Bubble and the Weak Foundation Beam
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Question of the Day
A Big PK
In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary Key constraint?
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