Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the comfort zone for a SQL DBA to say the...
2015-12-24
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Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the comfort zone for a SQL DBA to say the...
2015-12-24
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If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the...
2015-12-23
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We’ve been using the wrong data types for all the wrong reasons. DBAs, developers, data architects, etc. have all been...
2015-12-21
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A Clustered Index is not another term for Primary Key, and more thought should be put into the key columns...
2015-12-16 (first published: 2015-12-14)
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Data compression is often misunderstood to cost CPU in exchange for smaller size on disk. Somewhat true, but that simple...
2015-12-08
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I love working with indexes, and I need to know what’s using them to work on them intelligently. Most of...
2015-12-08 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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Reading the SQL Server Error Log is miserable. It contains very useful information you should address as soon as possible,...
2015-11-16
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I write on my blog and get a couple comments at best. I talk at conferences and a large part of...
2015-11-06 (first published: 2015-11-02)
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Extended Events is supposed to be taking over for most of Profiler and server-side tracing functionality, but there were people...
2015-10-26
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There’s a trick to technical interviews. Every question is looking for integrity first, and intelligence and energy second. This is...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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SELECT * feels convenient, but in SQL Server it bloats I/O, burns network bandwidth,...
By Kevin3NF
In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we’ve gathered info and done the...
By Steve Jones
At SQL Saturday Boston 2025, I gave a presentation on local LLMs and there...
Hi we run 2019 standard. Our warehouse's ssis based etl is klunky but so...
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The new Vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 is a binary type that has a few parameters. What parameters are required?
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