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Polyglot Persistence

I’ve seen the term polyglot persistence floating around Redgate a bit recently in the marketing department. I haven’t really seen this term anywhere, and I wonder if you have....

2024-07-05 (first published: )

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Async stats update causing blocking

I recently encountered an issue where an index rebuild set to wait_at_low_priority ended up blocking an asynchronous statistics update.
This interaction led to a large blocking chain where queries were...

2024-07-03 (first published: )

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Export Azure SQL DB to Storage

After a data migration, we needed to decommission the old Azure SQL DBs, but we wanted to keep a copy in case we needed anything later. Enter exporting an...

2024-07-03 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

Multiple Values Inserted

I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission
GO
CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission
(id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY
, salesperson VARCHAR(20)
, commission VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.Commission
( salesperson, commission)
VALUES
( 'Brian', 12 ),
( 'Brian', 'None' )
GO
 

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