Microsoft presents: MySQL and PostgreSQL?
For the longest time, MySQL has been the recommended database platform for blogs and other websites. It’s free. It’s available...
2017-08-16
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Randolph West
- Twitter: @_randolph_west
- Website: https://bornsql.ca/blog/
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rabryst/
This is how I recovered from a catastrophic failure
I was fresh off the boat* from South Africa, working in a small computer store in an equally small town...
2017-08-09
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Locks, Blocks, and Isolation Levels
Last week we looked at ACID compliance. This week we dive a little deeper into the Isolation portion, and what...
2017-08-02
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Acids and Databases: A look at ACID and transactions
Relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL use transactions to allow concurrent users to...
2017-07-26
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What is a good Disaster Recovery Plan?
During a Q&A session I hosted at our local Calgary SQL Server User Group last month, one of the attendees...
2017-07-19
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Be Wary of Date Formatting in T-SQL
Today’s public service announcement is a reminder to be wary of date formatting in SQL Server. On a recent mailing...
2017-07-12
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Balanced Power Saving T-SQL script
We can easily spend tens of thousands of dollars on core licences for SQL Server, and then we go and...
2017-07-05
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Where To From Fundamentals?
The Database Fundamentals series is now done. We started with understanding what a database is, and then spent a little...
2017-06-28
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Why You Need A Test Environment
In 2017, there’s no excuse not to have at least a testing environment, and preferably a development environment as well,...
2017-06-21
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How to write a DELETE query
My First DELETE Statement Here are the links to the previous posts in this series: My First SELECT Statement My...
2017-06-14
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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