Automation starts by doing something once, very very carefully: T-SQL Tuesday #110
After a while the intros for my T-SQL Tuesday posts get a little boring. So without any further ado, it’s...
2019-01-08
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Kenneth Fisher
Identity in a SELECT
Always be learning right? So when I saw this I had to go HU?! That’s new. What’s going on here?
SELECT
IDENTITY(INT,...
2019-01-02 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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SQL Homework – January 2019 – Baselines
Happy New Year! Every year for New Years we all make a big deal of coming up with New Years...
2019-01-02
1,076 reads
Using Microsoft Learn
I’ve just signed up on Microsoft’s new learning opportunity Microsoft Learn. The main categories are Azure, Business Apps, and Windows...
2018-12-31
428 reads
Oh Query, Query, Query
I thought I would post this a bit early so everyone can memorize the words before Hanukka starts next week.
I...
2018-12-18 (first published: 2018-11-28)
2,756 reads
Savings changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created.
Microsoft does a lot of things to try to help us not shoot ourselves in the foot. This little error...
2018-12-17
1,013 reads
Bulk insert and an identity column
TL;DR; BULK INSERT doesn’t have an easy way to specify a column list so the columns in the insert file...
2018-12-12
948 reads
Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds
We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016...
2018-12-10
230 reads
My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)
A while back I wrote about how to find where your backups are. And I’ve also written about I use...
2018-12-10 (first published: 2018-11-26)
2,079 reads
UDL files and connection strings
A co-worker showed me a really neat trick the other day. We deal with a lot of connection problems and...
2018-12-05
7,117 reads
Blogs
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
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The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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