A New Word: Emodox
emodox – someone whose mood is perpetually out of sync with everyone else around them, prone to feelings of naptime panic, heart-to-heart snark, or dance club pensiveness. I had...
2023-11-24
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Blog Posts
Creating a Self Referencing FK in a CREATE Statement–#SQLNewBlogger
I had written about a FK in a CREATE TABLE statement recently, but the second half of this was that after the original question, the person asked if this...
2023-11-24 (first published: 2023-11-06)
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Memories of the PASS Data Community Summit 2023
I’ve been to a lot of conferences, and one that I’ve probably attended the most is the annual PASS Data Community Summit. It’s been listed under various names, but...
2023-11-24
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Query Store Reports Time Intervals
A great question came up over at DBA.StackExchange regarding the query store reports time intervals: How can SQL Server’s Query Store Reports show data for minute-length intervals, when “Statistics...
2023-11-24 (first published: 2023-11-13)
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Crosstream - Efficient Cross-Server Joins on Slow Networks in Python
Earlier this year I presented at PyCon 2023 in Salt Lake City, UT on the topic of "Efficient Cross-Server Data Joins on Slow Networks with Python". You can watch...
2023-11-22 (first published: 2023-11-13)
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Get Certificate Details for SQL Encryption In-Transit Using PowerShell – UPDATED
In a previous blog post, I showed you how to use PowerShell to retrieve the details of the certificate being used for encryption-in-transit, aka TLS encryption. I have received...
2023-11-22 (first published: 2023-11-14)
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T-SQL Tuesday #168–Roundup
Last week was the 168th T-SQL Tuesday, which I hosted. The invitation is here. I didn’t get much of a chance to check out the posts as I was...
2023-11-21
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How to write efficient TSQL
This is an article on How to write efficient TSQL. When it comes to composing T-SQL (Transact-SQL) code, there exist a multitude of vital considerations developers should bear in...
2023-11-20 (first published: 2023-11-06)
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Microsoft Fabric is now GA!
After more than two years in development and six months in public preview, Microsoft Fabric is now generally available (GA). Here is the announcement made during Microsoft Ignite last...
2023-11-20
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Running a Command Line SQL Compare Comparison
Recently a customer was looking to automate some of their SQL Compare checks, but they wanted to do this in a dynamic way, since they needed to do this...
2023-11-20 (first published: 2023-11-08)
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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