CREATE DATABASE – I’ve not seen that before.
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It’s been a while
I thought that I’d make a quick blog post about an incident that I encountered today...
2017-01-22
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Marty
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What’s happening in Asia Pacific?
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I really am going to make an effort to blog more, and this post is really the start of that.
I...
2015-09-30
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TSQL Tuesday #68 – backup checksum default
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G’Day,
Well it seems like TSQL Tuesday #68 is providing me with a real good reason to get back into my...
2015-07-07
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More Azure SQL Database Enhancements – Meet RLS (cloud first debut)
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Well, it was only a few days ago that I blogged about some major Azure SQL Database enhancements. Primarily, in...
2015-01-30
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2014 – A year in review.
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And so another year passes, and as I’ve never wrote a “year in review” post before now seems like a...
2014-12-31
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I’ve joined the SQL SERVER MVP community – Thank you!
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Today I awoke to find an email from Microsoft informing me that I’d been awarded an MVP. Wow.
I had to...
2014-10-01
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A real life table variable performance problem.
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I’m sure we’ve all heard and read about the differences between table variables and temporary tables. In case you haven’t...
2014-09-30
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SQL Saturday #316, MVP’s, MCMs and a baby.
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Saturday June 14th 2014 seen the Christchurch, New Zealand SQL SERVER user group host its second SQL Saturday (#316).
We learnt...
2014-06-27
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Import export wizard at the commandline
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Well, it seems like even if you’ve worked with SQL SERVER for a while, you’re always lightly to learn something...
2014-05-12
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Two IDs, One database and a Magic Number (and maybe even an empty string)
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I noticed something odd recently when looking at sys.dm_exec_requests. Specifically the system processes listed in that DMV – well at least...
2014-03-26
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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