Synchronous vs Asynchronous
You’ll hear these terms thrown around in programming all the time, but what do they mean and why do we...
2016-10-24
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Kenneth Fisher
Installing SQLCMD
For anyone who wasn’t aware SQLCMD is a command line tool for running T-SQL statements and scripts. Before anyone says...
2016-10-19
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Using Snippets
A while ago I talked about Templates. This is an easy way to get a, well, template of a piece...
2016-10-17
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Too many indexes!
Indexes are great. They speed up our queries. In fact, without them relational database systems wouldn’t work.
Different indexes work best...
2016-10-13
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If backups are taken in silence can a recovery still take place?
My friend Andy Mallon (b/t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. In case you aren’t aware T-SQL Tuesday is a...
2016-10-11
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Pinned Tabs
It’s funny how easy it is to find information you aren’t looking for. A few weeks back Stephen Bennett (b)...
2016-10-10 (first published: 2016-09-27)
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Floor, Round, and Ceiling
I saw an interesting question today about rounding. Specifically they always wanted to round down. Now as it happens that...
2016-10-05
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A quick fix for a full identity column.
A while back I wrote a post on everything I knew about identity columns. In it I mentioned the following:
Negative...
2016-10-03 (first published: 2016-09-21)
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Becoming a Microsoft MVP
I was awarded the Microsoft MVP (data platform) award on Saturday.
On the four days a year (one per quarter) when...
2016-10-03
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Constant Data Types
Data types are an important part of how tables and variables work. Did you know that constants have databases too?
2016-10-03
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Blogs
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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