One week to SQL Intersection
You still have time to grab the boss and convince him to invest in you. Show what you’ve learned in...
2014-04-08
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Blog Posts
Question of the Week -08/04/2014
Suppose we need to find out the name of all the months in a given year (Year will be given...
2014-04-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #53 – Work Hard, Play Hard, Joke Hard
It is April and April Fools has only just begun. Well, or so Matt Velic (blog | twitter) would have us...
2014-04-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #53 – Work Hard, Play Hard, Joke Hard
It is April and April Fools has only just begun. Well, or so Matt Velic (blog | twitter) would have us believe. Matt decided that this month for TSQL...
2014-04-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #53 Why So Serious
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday which is now at a staggering number 53, can it really have been going that long?...
2014-04-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #53: Why so serious
Why so serious? If you ask anyone who knows me they will tell you I’m not a terribly serious person....
2014-04-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #53–Why So Serious?
It’s an interesting topic this month for T-SQL Tuesday #53. When I read Matt Velic’s invitation, I became intrigued. I...
2014-04-08
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Database Design Guidelines For Developers
One of the developers that I work with asked me to write a “brief” (really brief) guide on database design....
2014-04-07 (first published: 2014-04-03)
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Decode SQL Server Job Schedules
As once a data architect, I cannot help but admiring and appreciating the data model behind the sql server job...
2014-04-07
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Decree: Set your partition offset and block size – make SQL Server faster
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1,024 times: your SQL data and log drives need a 1024 KB...
2014-04-07
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The DBA is Dead; Long...
Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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