New Azure SQL Database Pricing Model
Azure SQL Database has some great built-in features that are included in the price like automatic backups, high availability, auditing...
2018-04-12
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Blog Posts
New Azure SQL Database Pricing Model
Azure SQL Database has some great built-in features that are included in the price like automatic backups, high availability, auditing and threat detection, transparent data encryption. No matter how...
2018-04-12
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Please join me for my PASS Summit Pre-Con with Melissa Coates
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining forces with Melissa Coates (aka SQL Chick) to do a full-day PASS Summit...
2018-04-12
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SQL Server Logical Query Processing
Recently, while reviewing one of the stored procedure performance, I suggested a couple of changes to a developer to improve...
2018-04-12
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What is a Foreign Key & How many foreign keys can you have on a single table?
Yesterday, I was attending a database design meeting. In the meeting, I was asked one of the questions – “How many...
2018-04-12 (first published: 2018-04-05)
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Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group – Execution Plans
Tonight, April 11th starting at 6PM, the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group will hold its monthly meeting. The Baton Rouge .Net User Group does the same at the...
2018-04-11
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Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group – Execution Plans
Tonight, April 11th starting at 6PM, the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group will hold its monthly meeting. The Baton...
2018-04-11
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Checking for temporary table existence
Database Code Smells
I was recently reviewing a newly created T-SQL stored procedure. This procedure was verifying temporary table existence with...
2018-04-11
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Contextual View
In this post I describe technique of presenting data that is context specific - for example, data that will be changing...
2018-04-11
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Cost savings of the cloud
I often hear people say moving to the cloud does not save money, but frequently they don’t take into account...
2018-04-11
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Identities and Sequences III
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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