Performance as a feature, software developer edition
Relational database management systems (RDBMS) like SQL Server and Azure SQL Database are very good at managing normalized data. Efficient...
2018-07-11
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Randolph West
- Twitter: @_randolph_west
- Website: https://bornsql.ca/blog/
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rabryst/
Community recognition
On the first day of January 2017, I was honoured to receive an email naming me as a Microsoft MVP...
2018-07-04
312 reads
Update your production servers and stop making excuses about it
Folks, we all like to make sure we’re doing our level best to make things work smoothly. So why am...
2018-06-27
367 reads
Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATENAME()
Last time we looked at DATEPART(). This post is all about the DATENAME() function. So many similarities There are many...
2018-06-20
904 reads
Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATEPART()
In my previous posts in this series we’ve seen reference to Transact-SQL (T-SQL) functions that are used to get the...
2018-06-13
292 reads
T-SQL aside: replace PRINT with RAISERROR
I was minding my own business innocently reading a blog post by Erik Darling, when this tip smacked me in...
2018-06-06
1,146 reads
Dates and Times in SQL Server: the problem with DATETIME
Recently I wrote a post about date and time functions you should never use, which contained an opinion I’ve expressed...
2018-05-30
451 reads
Dates and Times in SQL Server: more functions you should never use
Previously we looked at four built-in functions to get the current date and time in SQL Server and Azure SQL...
2018-05-23 (first published: 2018-05-16)
3,884 reads
Virtual Log Files: 200 or 1000?
Last week I had the privilege of reviewing possibly the best SQL Server production environment I’ve seen in Canada. During...
2018-05-23
477 reads
A big thank you
Thank you! Thank you for reading my blog. Thank you for buying my book. Thank you for attending my sessions...
2018-05-09
247 reads
Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Huge frustration - Database watcher with two elastic pools
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers