I’m speaking at the Data Saturday Holland!
As you may have noticed, the agenda for Data Saturday Holland was recently published. I’m delighted to share that I will be conducting a full-day precon on October 7,...
2023-08-01
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #165: What Do All The Database Job Titles Actually Mean?
It’s an honor to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case you don’t know the rules already, here is a recap of them: Earlier this year, when I was...
2023-08-01
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A high level view of the most costly queries by CPU
A high level view of the most costly queries by CPU
I want to see at a high level i.e at batch or stored procedure level, not at the individual...
2023-07-31 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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Assigning a Default Schema to a New User–#SQLNewBlogger
I had to test something for a customer, and as a part of this there as a need to have a different default schema for a user. Since this...
2023-07-31 (first published: 2023-07-12)
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A New Word: Fitzcarraldo
fitzcaraldo – n. a random image that becomes lodged deep in your brain – maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a...
2023-07-28
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Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group
Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results...
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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The two hardest concepts of security are Who? and Where?
I was having a conversation with some friends the other day and Jen McCown (blog|twitter) asked about SQL Server security ... Continue reading
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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I’m back! I’m still a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. And other minor life updates.
I stopped blogging late last year. I’ll be honest, I was tired. I had decided to take a month or ... Continue reading
2023-07-27
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Code that made you feel a certain way : T-SQL Tuesday #164
It’s been a while, but I’m finally participating in T-SQL Tuesday again! This month Erik Darling (blog|twitter) is hosting. Ever ... Continue reading
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #164: Code that makes you feel
The invitation this month is from Erik Darling, and it’s a neat one. I like this thought, asking us to find code that impressed us or made us feel...
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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Blogs
A New Word: Semaphorism
By Steve Jones
semaphorism – n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on...
SQL Server Linux Container Images Got Smaller: Image Size and Startup Time Across Cumulative Updates
This week I was at PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, and I attended...
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
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Question of the Day
Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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