Today I’m presenting at DataMospit, the most metal conference in the data space! You can download the Sea of Madness bingo card from here: https://github.com/spaghettidba/CodeSamples/raw/master/SQLServerInfernals/InfernalBingo.xlsx The winner will get...
2023-09-16
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justing – n. the habit of telling yourself that just one tweak could solve all your problems – if only you had the right haircut, if only you found...
2023-09-15
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When a Flyway Desktop (FWD) project (or Flyway project) has been around for a long time, there can be a lot of migration scripts. That can be a pain...
2023-09-15 (first published: 2023-08-11)
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Flyway Desktop includes version control features with Git. One thing that was added in v6.5+ was the ability to commit and push. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for...
2023-09-15
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In my last couple of blog posts (here and here) I talked about how to get SQL Server running in Docker Swarm. But there is one big (and show-stopping)...
2023-09-15 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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Once more, my apologies for being late on getting the T-SQL Tuesday announcement out. I have no excuse. However, our extended event on Extended Events (yes, I’m the third...
2023-09-15
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With 165 T-SQL Tuesday events, two, just two, this one, T-SQL Tuesday #166, and another one back in 2018 or 2019 (I forget and I’m far too lazy to...
2023-09-14
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I saw someone struggling with getting started with a Visual Studio project and Azure DevOps. They got a conflict, which I’ll show and then get you started with an...
2023-09-13
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I’m currently in Enterprise Architecture in my organization and as a result, I blogged earlier about putting up study notes with regards to preparing for the two TOGAF (The...
2023-09-13
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I have a client who was upgrading some servers from pre-2022 versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2022 CU7. They had some multidimensional SSAS cubes that were to...
2023-09-13 (first published: 2023-08-18)
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By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
Hi everyone, We are selling cars and have a range of options at our...
hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers