Positive or Negative
Today Steve Jones wonders if the way you choose to design a database says something about you.
2015-10-23
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SQL in the City Comes to Seattle in 3 Days
Last week I spoke at SQL in the City 2015 in London, and it was a great event. We had...
2015-10-23
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SQL in the City Comes to Seattle in 3 Days
Last week I spoke at SQL in the City 2015 in London, and it was a great event. We had...
2015-10-23
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2015-10-23
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Git Push in SQL Source Control
I’m excited. Git support is growing in SQL Source Control and the release recently contains Git push/pull support. If you...
2015-10-22
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The Dangers of Travel
As data professionals, we might carry lots of information with us that relates to our organization. Will we get caught up in government issues as we cross borders?
2015-10-22
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An Out of Date CAP
The CAP Theorem talks about the properties of distributed systems, and how you can really only have two of them in any system.
2015-10-21
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SQL Prompt Tips #2 - Casing Options
A quick tip to help you set your object names to your preferred case in T-SQL code.
2015-10-21 (first published: 2012-05-01)
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A Week Before Networking at the PASS Summit
It’s a week before the Networking Dinner at the PASS Summit. Andy Warren and I are hosting the event next...
2015-10-20
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A Week Before Networking at the PASS Summit
It’s a week before the Networking Dinner at the PASS Summit. Andy Warren and I are hosting the event next...
2015-10-20
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
Forums
String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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