A New Word: Ghough
ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more job, more...
2023-09-29
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Blog Posts
Friday Flyway Tips: More Config Options
Working with various Flyway configuration options used to be a pain since they were either CLI parameters or in a text files. We’ve made editing these easier in Flyway...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-08-25)
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Temporal Table Data Fixes
I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-09-05)
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T-SQL Tuesday: Encryption and Data Protection
I have the honour of hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case there’s any doubt that’s for October 2023, I’m posting this invitation a little early as I got...
2023-09-29
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FDD 2023 – Session Materials
You can find the slides for my session at Future Data Driven summit at GitHub. It was really nice presenting (virtually). If you have any questions, let me know!
The...
2023-09-27
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How to Secure SQL Server
Security! This is the word that comes to mind of every concerned person when it comes to storing, accessing, and sharing the data and database or database server. At times when applications are run in geographically restricted areas, there...
2023-09-27 (first published: 2023-09-04)
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SQL Homework – September 2023 – Time for temporal tables.
Recently I needed to use temporal tables. And not just for the job history table in a managed instance. In ... Continue reading
2023-09-27 (first published: 2023-09-05)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 2
The Identity property creates an incremental value for the specified column automatically, which is why it is widely used by developers when they designed the table and a primary...
2023-09-25
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 2
The Identity property creates an incremental value for the specified column automatically, which is why it is widely used by developers when they designed the table and a primary...
2023-09-25
12 reads
Enable PowerShell Remoting
Enable PowerShell Remoting
I use PowerShell quite a lot to manage servers, especially SQL Servers. So I need to be able to run PowerShell...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-09-24)
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Blogs
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...
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CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
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what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?
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Help! MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait stalls
Hi I have an overnight process that moves allot of claims records Been working...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers