2020 was certainly a year on the calendar
According to my blog post schedule, this is the final post of the year. It’s nothing more than a coincidence, but making it through the worst year in living...
2020-12-30
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Randolph West
- Twitter: @_randolph_west
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Goodbye PASS
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of...
2020-12-23
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Announcing the Calgary Data User Group
In 2018 I started a new user group called the Calgary Data User Group, and hosted one session called “The Ethics of Machine Learning.” It was well-attended and its...
2020-12-16
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #007: Summertime in the SQL
This is the seventh post in my retrospective attempt to answer every T-SQL Tuesday invitation. In the beginning of June 2010, Jorge Segarra invited us to write about our...
2020-12-09
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #006: What about blob?
I am revisiting old T-SQL Tuesday invitations from the very beginning of the project. On May 3, 2010, Michael Coles invited us to write about how we use LOB...
2020-12-02
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #005: Reporting
A few weeks ago, I began answering every single T-SQL Tuesday from the beginning. This week it’s the fifth entry, and on April 5th, 2010, Aaron Nelson invited us...
2020-11-25
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Setting yourself up for online streaming success, PASS Virtual Summit style
Last week I presented on three separate occasions during what is considered the biggest Microsoft Data Platform conference of the year, the PASS Summit: Full-day pre-conference session Speaker Idol...
2020-11-18
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #004: I/O
Mike Walsh invited us on March 1st 2010 to write about I/O. This abbreviation stands for Input / Output, and is often used as shorthand for persisted storage. Given...
2020-11-11
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The rule of three, SQL Server on Linux edition
When it comes to Microsoft products, the rule of three — at least as far as I’m concerned — is where you can accomplish the same task in three...
2020-11-10
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #003: Relationships
In my quest to respond to every T-SQL Tuesday since the dawn of the end of 2009, it was only a matter of time before Rob Farley’s name came...
2020-11-04
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Blogs
The Mystery of the Locked-Up Database -Scooby Dooing Episode 6
No Scooby-Doo story is complete without footprints leading to a hidden passage. In SQL...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A bunch of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
The Challenge of Implicit Transactions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw an article recently about implicit transactions and coincidentally, I had a friend...
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers