High Performance T-SQL using Code Patterns
What exactly does this mean? We’ve heard of “code patterns” in other programming languages, but what does it mean to...
2015-06-04 (first published: 2015-05-27)
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Blog Posts
SQL Server – How to Calculate Length and Size of any field in a SQL Table
Recently I came across a situation where queries are loading extremely slow from a table. After careful analysis we found...
2015-06-04
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SQLSaturday #408 Houston
I have been selected again to speak in Houston (Saturday, June 13th) for a SQLSaturday event and look forward to...
2015-06-04
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Sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp – SQL Server Database Mail Stored Procedure – Part 7
Hi friends, in last previous blogs we created database mail profile and database mail account. In this blog we will...
2015-06-04
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Blacklist a Set of IPs - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe talked about whitelisting IPs before, but what about the opposite, blacklisting...
The post Blacklist a Set of...
2015-06-03
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Clean up all (most) of the orphans on an instance
Recently we have been doing a number of instance moves as part of a large upgrade project. And as anyone...
2015-06-03
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Full Domain Trust and Natively Compiled Stored Procedures – In Memory OLTP
Recently one of my developers brought this specific problem to my attention. He was trying to create a natively compiled stored...
2015-06-03 (first published: 2015-05-26)
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Notes From The May 2015 oPASS Meeting
Really late posting these, forgot to put on my task list!
About 20 attendeesLots of good questions, and I saw quite...
2015-06-03
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SQL Server 2016 features to look for -1
At this year’s inaugural Ignite Conference in held in Chicago Microsoft announced that the next release of SQL Server, previously...
2015-06-03
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VM Memory Counters Lie for SQL Server VMs
A few weeks ago, while at the incredible SQL Saturday Madison, I had a great discussion with a few of the...
2015-06-03 (first published: 2015-05-22)
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
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Identities and Sequences III
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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