Webinar: Is the traditional data warehouse dead?
As a follow-up to my blog Is the traditional data warehouse dead?, I did a webinar on that very topic for...
2018-03-28
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Blog Posts
What’s the difference between Files and Filegroups?
tl;dr; Filegroups are a logical construct used to separate tables and indexes from each other, files are the physical construct...
2018-03-28
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AT TIME ZONE: The easy way to deal with time zones and daylight savings time
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Many people think daylight savings time was created to help align the hours that the sun is up with our waking hours so farmers...
2018-03-27
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AT TIME ZONE: The easy way to deal with time zones and daylight savings time
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Many people think daylight savings time was created to help align the hours that the sun is up with our waking hours so farmers...
2018-03-27
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DB_NAME() vs ORIGINAL_DB_NAME()
I’d never seen ORIGINAL_DB_NAME until recently and I thought it would be interesting to highlight it out, and in particular...
2018-03-27 (first published: 2018-03-15)
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How To Steal Data Using Second Order SQL Injection Attacks
One misconception some people have about SQL injection is that it can only happen when concatenating a user input parameter...
2018-03-27 (first published: 2018-03-20)
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Template Explorer Gold Mine
Sometimes as a newbie to SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) you don’t know about the little gold...
2018-03-27
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T-SQL Tuesday #62 - Achieving Healthy SQL with MDW
Today:
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 is the 62nd entry and first T-SQL Tuesday
of the year 2015, and I am honored to...
2018-03-27 (first published: 2015-01-13)
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Women in Technology - All are welcome!
I was at SQL Saturday 723 in Rochester, NY last weekend. I was selected to deliver 2 sessions, and I...
2018-03-27
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Azure SQL Database and Cost Threshold for Parallelism
We all know that the magic figure for cost threshold for parallelism is 5 by default, meaning if the estimated...
2018-03-26 (first published: 2018-03-16)
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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