Speaking at the Edmonton PASS user group on 16 July 2020
A short post this week, to let you know that I’ll be presenting a brand new session to the Edmonton PASS user group (EDMPASS) next Thursday. It will be...
2020-07-08
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A short post this week, to let you know that I’ll be presenting a brand new session to the Edmonton PASS user group (EDMPASS) next Thursday. It will be...
2020-07-08
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It’s Canada Day here, the commemoration of the country’s confederation in 1867. Given events over the last few months such as the worldwide pandemic, followed by a number of...
2020-07-01
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One of my hobbies is trying to break technology so that you don’t have to. I don’t consider myself a professional or hobbyist hacker, though if the shoe fits…...
2020-06-24
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This week we’re looking at how the database engine stores GUIDs (globally unique identifiers), specifically known as UNIQUEIDENTIFIER in SQL Server. If you would like to read about storage...
2020-06-17
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In this post we are looking at how SQL Server stores floating point values (FLOAT and REAL). If you’d like to read the previous posts in this series of...
2020-06-10
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On Twitter, Michael Dyrynda writes: ?? Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever...
2020-06-03
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In this post we look at how SQL Server stores currency values using the MONEY and SMALLMONEY data types. If you’d like to read the previous posts in this...
2020-05-27
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As longtime readers know, I am also a software developer (we can’t call them engineers in Canada for legal reasons). I took over a complex codebase last year in...
2020-05-20
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Last time we looked at the internals of how dates and times are stored in SQL Server. This week we’re going to look at how numbers are stored. This...
2020-05-13
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A quick(er) post this week, in response to Greg Low’s blog post from a few weeks ago titled “Don’t start identity columns or sequences with large negative values.” Greg...
2020-05-06
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