Normalisation
The purpose of normalisation is to remove redundancy and prevent conflict. 1st Normal Form (1NF) – Every field can have only...
2013-08-07
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Client Pressures and Code Quality
In my experience, code quality always trumps urgency because when code has been released that has questionable quality, it is...
2013-06-09
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SQL Query Result Order
Every time an SQL query is run without the ORDER BY clause, the sort order of the results returned is...
2013-06-05
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SQL Logical Query Processing Order
This probably applies more to beginners or people who have been using SQL for a while but have been wondering...
2013-06-03
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SQL and Relational Theory
Do you know the foundation of SQL? According to the book Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Training Kit on the...
2013-05-31
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The right terminology for the right audience
For those who has the privilege of being in the technology consulting industry for some time and started out in...
2013-01-17
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Address Clean-up for Mail Merge using SSIS
Remember the good ol’ days of going through a list of addresses and manually cleaning up hundreds if not thousands...
2012-10-19
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
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Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
BIT_COUNT() V
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How We Reduced SQL Server Infrastructure Costs by 33% on AWS: Lessons From a Database Operations Manager
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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