My Office Setup
At the PASS Summit a few weeks ago, I had a great chat with some folks about our home office setups. More and more of us are working from...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 15 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to support a charity or cause you care about. My big causes are food, housing, and education for those that are struggling. I like to...
2022-12-15
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End of year planning: T-SQL Tuesday #157
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! And Garry Bargsley (blog|twitter) has asked us what we have planned for the end of the ... Continue reading
2022-12-15 (first published: 2022-12-13)
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My presentation recordings of data architectures
Over the years I have presented a ton (see the list), and some of those presentations were recorded. I had put some of them on my YouTube channel, but...
2022-12-15
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Daily Coping 14 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to offer to help someone who is facing difficulties now. I’ve been very lucky in life. I find that success often has me associating with...
2022-12-14
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Default event_file path for Extended Events
Foreword
Have you ever wondered where the .xel file is saved when you create a new Extended Event session and don’t specify the full path (just the file name)?
Like so:
Well,...
2022-12-14 (first published: 2022-11-30)
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Encrypting Your SQL Data Should be Your Default Option
Cyber-attacks and data breaches seem to be perpetually on the rise. Every week we hear news of large companies that have had data stolen with both financial and reputational...
2022-12-14 (first published: 2022-11-30)
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Daily Coping 13 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to contact someone you can’t be with to see how they are. Maybe the one thing the pandemic did for me is make me think...
2022-12-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #157: End of Year Activity
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Garry Bargsley (blog | twitter) wants to know what activities we...
2022-12-13
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Daily Coping 12 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to look at life through someone else’s eyes and see their perspective. I have my own views, beliefs, and thoughts about the world. However, I...
2022-12-12
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Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers