Advent of Code
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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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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Optional parameters in a stored procedure often lead to scans in the execution plan, reading through the entire table, even...
2014-04-15
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The other day I came across an interesting repo on github, KubeDiagrams. What this...
By Steve Jones
I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes...
SQL Server migrations are a headache, ask anyone who’s been through the pain of...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Introduction to PostgreSQL for the...
Hi we know (or believe) ssas saas gets stood up separately when a company...
Good Afternoon. I have been manually running an SSIS package on an adhoc basis,...
I have this code:
SELECT CHOOSE (MONTH (saledate), 'Winter', 'Winter', 'Spring', 'Spring', 'Spring', 'Summer', 'Summer', 'Summer', 'Autumn', 'Autumn', 'Autumn', 'Autumn') AS x FROM ProductSales;What is a good name for the column alias? See possible answers