Roland Alexander was an application developer for the first half of his 20+ year career in IT – then he came over to the Dark Side of SQL Server development, and is now diving headfirst into the deep end of the DBA pool. This blog is about his observations, discoveries, trials, and tribulations, and he hopes you enjoy reading it, learn a thing or two, and (hopefully) teach him a thing or two while you’re at it.

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A New Word: Feresy

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feresy – n.  the fear that your partner is changing in ways you don’t...

Mastering the ORDER BY Clause in SQL Window Functions

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This article provides a comprehensive overview of the ORDER BY clause within SQL window...

SQL Data Pipelines: The Ultimate Guide to Streamlining Your Data Flow

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Want to build a data analytics foundation that transforms raw data into valuable business...

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The Cloud Security Problem

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Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Cloud Security Problem, which...

Iterative query to sum a colum relating to dates.

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Hi, I have a simple table with 5 columns as follows with about 80,000...

how to force SS to run certain SP in parallel?

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hi everyone I have a SP that is run in SSIS.  That particular SP...

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Question of the Day

No Renames

Which of these can't be renamed with sp_rename?

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