I spend my days working on and managing SQL Server instances—working days at least, and sometimes even on non-working days. I’ve been working with SQL Server for years now,...
2025-01-08 (first published: 2024-12-24)
2,205 reads
Note: I found this sitting in my Medium draft. This was a cross-post from my old productivity blog that got lost in oblivion. Productivity is never an accident. It...
2023-12-01 (first published: 2023-11-17)
246 reads
In the fast-paced world of IT, where trends like DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) dominate the landscape, the concepts of Reliability and Observability have seamlessly woven themselves into...
2023-10-25 (first published: 2023-10-10)
477 reads
This book will provide you with a good foundation upon which a consistent convention for practicing your day-to-day operations can have a solid footing in your database discipline, with...
2023-06-07 (first published: 2023-05-20)
551 reads
If you are like me and still prefer the physical book as your primary reading material, Benjamin Nevarez's book from Packt Publishing is a great book to add to...
2022-10-03 (first published: 2022-09-19)
398 reads
Microsoft has recently released the public preview of SQL Server 2022. You can find info here. Microsoft peddles SQL Server 2022 as “the most cloud enabled version Microsoft has...
2022-06-27 (first published: 2022-06-08)
897 reads
One of the technical books that sit on my work desk (or dining table, whichever is the case because I work from home full time now) at arm’s length...
2021-04-21 (first published: 2021-04-15)
404 reads
If anything, 2020 is an asterisk. Some lost their jobs. Some lost their loved ones. Perhaps more books will be written about it. Pundits will keep the conversation going....
2021-01-04
10 reads
In the past years I would set out my year-ahead goals both on the personal and career fronts by looking ahead at the things I want to attain or...
2020-03-11 (first published: 2020-03-03)
380 reads
This book simply answers the question "What's the next big thing?". The "Unapologetic Rules" will walk you through the many elements of exactly finding that out. Continue reading ?
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2019-11-04
19 reads
Juggling meetings, deadlines, and family? Yeah, learning SQL might seem like climbing Mount Everest...
By Vinay Thakur
Microsoft announced on November 2024 a preview for SQL Server 2025 another major release...
By Steve Jones
How to apologize: quickly, specifically, sincerely. Don’t ruin an apology with an excuse –...
Hello! SQL Clustered resource used to come online during manual or automatic failover in...
Code that can be used in order to create dashboard or SSRS report on...
So, I have an interesting situation that I need a double-check on. One of...
I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
PlayerIDPlayerNamePlayerStatus 1The \%ChampActive 2The ChampActive 3The_ChampionActive 4The__ChampionActive 5The\_ChampActiveHow many rows are returned by this code in SQL Server 2022?
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