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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Randolph West
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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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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #002: A Puzzling Situation
For the second T-SQL Tuesday ever — again, hosted by Adam Machanic — we were asked one of three options, and I elected to go with the first one:...
2020-11-02 (first published: 2020-10-28)
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The T-SQL Tuesday Corollary
T-SQL Tuesday is a fantastic series of blog posts derived from over 130 topics over the past 11 years, inviting bloggers to share their thoughts on a particular theme...
2020-10-21
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A more considered approach to email signatures
This — like last week’s post — is not about SQL Server or Azure SQL Database. In a way, it hearkens back to a post I wrote a few years...
2020-10-14
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Read the error message
This post is brought to you — indirectly — from a boss I loved working for, on a project which almost killed me, at a company which I had...
2020-10-07
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI
By Arun Sirpal
AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but...
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
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