T-SQL Tuesday 151: T-SQL Coding Standards
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Mala Mahadevan (b | t) has invited us to blog about our T-SQL coding standards. I...
2022-06-14
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Blog Posts
Who is Updating That Table? – SQL Audit
I had a problem at work recently where a record was getting updated, and no one knew where or what was updating the record. Our team discussed the best...
2022-06-14
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2022 State of PostgreSQL Survey
Hello all. I know most of you are still working within SQL Server. However, a few of you are become more like me, hybrid data managers, working in more...
2022-06-13
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Daily Coping 13 Jun 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-06-13
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dbatools - Rich Datatypes
Some datatypes can be shown in so many different forms (think measurament units, dates with short/long forms, or regional settings) that can be difficult to have a standard. What...
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-06-02)
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Why You (usually) Want a Clustered Index
Note: I originally wrote this a few years ago but never posted it. It resurfaced when I migrated the blog so it’s being posted now.
After watching Kevin Kline’s (blog...
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-05-16)
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Daily Coping 10 Jun 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-06-10
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Running dynamic SQL in a different database
This is one of those things that on hindsight was a stupid problem, but still cost me hours and a ... Continue reading
2022-06-10 (first published: 2022-05-19)
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VMware & SQL Server 823-824 alerts
We’ve been tracking a weird state with SQL Server virtual machines on VMware and possible warnings on database corruption while VM backups are running, largely centered around (but not...
2022-06-10 (first published: 2022-05-18)
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Azure VM Scale Sets
I really like scale sets. It lets you create and manage up to 1000 load balanced VMs per availability zone using windows or Linux images. (We can have flexible...
2022-06-09
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Blogs
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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