Join me next week at my first GroupBy session
2021 has been the year people want to learn about Temporal Tables, it seems. Not only am I speaking at the SQL Trail conference next week, but I was...
2021-10-20
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Randolph West
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System-versioned ledger tables: things you can’t do
This is the third post in the series about system-versioned ledger tables, a new feature introduced in Azure SQL Database. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 if...
2021-10-13
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Join me at SQL Trail 2021 to hear the next thing about Temporal Tables
I’ve had the privilege of presenting all over the world about temporal tables in SQL Server including the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The theme of the...
2021-10-06
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System-versioned ledger tables: the next step
In the first post of this series, we learned about a new type of system-versioned table that also works at the database level and introduces a mechanism that demonstrates...
2021-09-29
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Accessibility in font choice
Choosing the right typeface for your presentation (or for that matter anything you create that contains words) is fraught. In a previous post I wrote about the difference between...
2021-09-22
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Introducing system-versioned ledger tables
As long-time readers of this blog know, I’m a big fan of temporal tables, also known as system-versioned temporal tables. Until recently, temporal tables were synonymous with system-versioned tables,...
2021-09-15
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Why you need a Dead Man’s Switch
Right off the top here, I must note that the term “dead man’s switch” is archaic, so for the rest of this post I’ll refer to it as “operator...
2021-09-08
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Let’s talk about typefaces
I have previously written about accessibility in video captions, presentation slides, and disabilities, and I thought I should expand on the latter topic as it relates to typefaces, or...
2021-09-01
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Think twice about storing JSON in your SQL Server database
During routine maintenance on a customer’s production server, I discovered that they have one table consuming 40% of the storage in their database. That table contains just under 10...
2021-08-25
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Scaling down in the cloud
I may be completely off base here, but I’ve noticed a correlation between folks who use Amazon Web Services and their understanding that once you scale up a service...
2021-08-18
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Blogs
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
When growing companies outgrow Excel
By ChrisJenkins
There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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