Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
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Blog Posts
Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
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State of the Database Landscape Survey 2023
As data professionals, of any stripe, we should, as much as we can, where we can, base our decisions on data. After all, in theory anyway, we’re the experts...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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The Last Price Bump for the Data Community Summit
This week the cost of the PASS Data Community Summit jumps up to full price, on Sep 21. This is your last chance to save big, so get someone...
2023-09-18
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DataMoshpit!
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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A New Word: Justing
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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Friday Flyway Tips: Searching Migrations
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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Friday Flyway Tips–Commit and Push
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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Persisting data for SQL Server on Docker Swarm with Portworx
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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T-SQL Tuesday #166: Wrap-up
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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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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