I’m speaking: SQL Saturday Orlando (Oct 7th 17)

It’s been a while since I’ve done a SQL Saturday and I’m happy to be joining the folks in Orlando...

Microsoft presents: MySQL and PostgreSQL?

For the longest time, MySQL has been the recommended database platform for blogs and other websites. It’s free. It’s available...

SQL Server – So you like to shrink do you?

If you do – shame on you and shame on me because I do.

Moving on, I found strange behaviour within SQL...

SQL Server on Linux Series: Moving TempDB

In the last blog post, we added additional drives to the SQL Server machine so that we can scale out...

SQLCLR vs. SQL Server 2017, Part 3: “CLR strict security” – Solution 2

Welcome back, everyone. In the previous post in this series, I explained how to work within the new SQLCLR security...

“Does that copy subscriptions too?” – Now it does! New PowerShell SSRS commands

On my last post “SSRS Report Deployment Made Easy – 700 Times Faster” I showed how you can rely on the...

Always Encrypted with Azure Key Vault

I recently wrote a post about using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Azure Key Vault as an alternative to managing certificates. Today’s post will explore using SQL Server’s Always...

Bad Parameter Sniffing Decision Flow Chart

Lots of people are confused by how to deal with bad parameter sniffing when it occurs. In an effort to...

DevOps–Fixing Poorly Named Constraints

I was building some code the other day and kept getting problems in my deployment for a change. The deployment...

How to Eliminate Ugly Nested REPLACE() Functions

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How many times have you had to transform some column value and ended up stacking several nested SQL REPLACE() functions like this?
-- Input: Red,...