Can an AI Help Me Find a Job?
I’m not looking for a job, but I ran across an article about using AI tools for a job search. So I decided to try it out. I followed...
2025-03-18 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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Blog Posts
Can You See Table Valued Parameters in Extended Events?
I live for questions and this was an interesting one. Can you see Table Valued Parameters that have been passed in to Extended Events? I literally have no idea....
2025-03-18 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 14: Asynchronous Execution of SQL Statements
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2025-03-18 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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EightKB 2025
EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2025…it’s all happening on August the 21st! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...
2025-03-18 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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Marketing Analyst: The Data-Driven Superhero Your Company Needs
Want to blend your love of marketing with the power of data? Becoming a marketing analyst is the way to go. This job is all about measuring how well campaigns actually work, understanding...
2025-03-18
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On the Internet, the Walls Have Ears
I received a sobering reminder this week of a lesson we all have learned or should have learned long ago. Something I said online came back around months later...
2025-03-18 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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Save Azure PostgreSQL Backup to Storage
This may or may not be helpful in the long term, but since I’m doing it to be super cautious, I figured I would blog about it. We migrated...
2025-03-18 (first published: 2025-03-14)
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SQL Server Performance – What IT Leaders Need to Know
IT leaders have a lot on their plates! Budgets, staffing, security, uptime, and keeping everything running smoothly. When SQL Server performance becomes an issue, a common reaction is often...
2025-03-18 (first published: 2025-03-13)
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Using SQLFluff
I thought I didn’t care about linting, and lately, I haven’t written a lot of SQL, but for the SQL I do write, I have SQLFluff to help me...
2025-03-18
A Couple Quick GENERATE_SERIES Tests
I had someone reach out about generate_series() recently, saying they hadn’t realized this was a new feature in SQL Server 2022. They were wondering if it was better than...
2025-03-17 (first published: 2025-03-05)
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Blogs
Using SQLFluff
I thought I didn’t care about linting, and lately, I haven’t written a lot...
Marketing Analyst: The Data-Driven Superhero Your Company Needs
Want to blend your love of marketing with the power of data? Becoming a...
Can You See Table Valued Parameters in Extended Events?
I live for questions and this was an interesting one. Can you see Table...
Forums
Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using Python
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using...
Azure SQL database import permissions
What the required permissions are for "Database import" on an Azure SQL database ...
Migrating MDS model individually using MDS UI
Hi All, Is there a way i can create package for an individual...
Question of the Day
Column Adds and Drops
I run this batch on SQL Server 2022. What happens?
ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts ADD AccountAccessType INT GO ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts DROP AccountAccessType GOSee possible answers