T-SQL Tuesday #114 – Puzzle Party
A few years back I started running regular SQL workshops in my workplace. Teaching beginners the basics of querying databases with SQL, as well as more advanced topics for...
2019-05-07
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Matthew McGiffen
Attending a climate protest for the first time
This is a blog devoted to databases, but for once I’m going to go off topic and talk about something I did at the weekend that I’ve never done...
2019-04-25
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MAXDOP, Parallelism and the Cloud
Parallelism and MAXDOP The pros and cons of parallelism have always been with us in SQL Server and I blogged about this a couple of years ago. This is...
2019-04-18 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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Finding “Orphaned” database files – script
When you drop a database from a SQL Server instance the underlying files are usually removed. This doesn’t happen however if you set the database to be offline first,...
2019-03-27
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Using the Sequence Object to Generate Reference Numbers
The SEQUENCE object was added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2012. It’s reasonably well known to DBAs, but less so...
2019-03-12 (first published: 2019-02-20)
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“SSPI handshake failed” \ “The login is from an untrusted domain” errors
I’ve recently encountered an issue that was difficult to resolve and I didn’t find the particular cause that was troubling...
2019-02-28 (first published: 2019-02-12)
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Checking Progress of the Creation of your Azure Resources
When I’ve created resources in Azure it’s usually taken from a few minutes and up to quarter of an hour...
2019-02-26
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There’s got to be a better way
For T-SQL Tuesday #111, Andy Leonard asks “What is your why? Why do you do what you do?”
Like Andy, I...
2019-02-12
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Some differences with SQL Server when running on AWS RDS
If you plan on using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host your SQL Server based applications in the cloud, then...
2018-12-12
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Extended Events Made Easy – Sorting, Grouping and Aggregation
When I’m using Profiler to analyse performance issues I often save the results to a table, or upload a trace...
2018-10-29 (first published: 2018-10-16)
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Blogs
Information Measurement with SQL Server Part 4.5: The Squared L2 Family of Distances
By Steve Bolton …………In the last two installments of this series of amateur self-tutorials...
Security Learning Pathway at PASS Summit.
This year PASS is trying something new at PASS Summit. There are going to...
Pathways to Progress
One of the most significant and hardest challenges we face as data professionals (or...
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