As I wrote last month, I went through a period of feeling personally and professionally deadlocked, and flailed about for some time before I found the answer of making...
2021-04-28 (first published: 2020-02-21)
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When I launched The Noncluttered Index last year, it was with the intention of writing at least twice a week. For a while, that was very doable. Then, work...
2021-04-23 (first published: 2020-01-14)
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A letter to a past self from Pamela Mooney that might help a more junior DBA get up to speed quicker.
2020-09-22
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Do you ever get the Christmas card that features a beautiful picture of a family on the front, and a letter catching you up on their year on the...
2020-08-28 (first published: 2020-08-18)
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I was using LEN() to troubleshoot an issue I was having with a dynamically constructed string truncating while inserting into an NVARCHAR(MAX) column. Since I know that NVARCHAR(MAX) has...
2020-07-22 (first published: 2020-07-14)
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Hi All, While I haven’t been writing here, I have been writing. I have a new article that has just been published on Simple Talk, and I am developing...
2020-04-16
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Great news! I was accepted this weekend to speak at SQLSaturday Los Angeles! This officially counts as a level up for me for my deadlock resolution quest. The event...
2020-02-25
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An old proverb states, “Fire is a good servant but a bad master.” Put simply, it means that when controlled, fire is a life-sustaining element. We need it for...
2020-02-07
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My colleagues and I take schema ownership seriously. The owner (with few exceptions) should always be “dbo”. Certainly, it should not be a user. Why? Because if the user...
2020-02-03
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I don't normally drop users and logins in production, but when I do, and it goes wrong, I do this.
2019-09-20
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By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to try something new to get out of your comfort...
Monitoring for Problems The encryption of your existing data occurs as a background process...
By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to focus on what’s good, even if today feels tough....
Please see my DDL. I would like to create: a) Dimensional table that tracks Primary...
I have a stored procedure that works across databases. So the "integration" database will...
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