Daily Coping 8 Apr 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...
2022-04-08
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Blog Posts
Quick Tip: Remove CONVERTCAST from your WHEREJOIN clauses
Quick Tip Remove CONVERT/CAST from your WHERE clauses and JOINS when comparing to variables of different data types. Set their data types to match your table definitions before using...
2022-04-08 (first published: 2022-03-28)
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The Summit is Back in Person
Registration for the Data Community Summit opens today! You can sign up and come to Seattle in November with all the other data platform pros that you’ve missed seeing...
2022-04-08 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Daily Coping 7 Apr 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...
2022-04-07
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KEEP PLAN Demystified
Foreword
I was always wondering what the KEEP PLAN hint does. The documentation isn’t very specific (emphasis mine):
Forces the Query Optimizer to relax the estimated recompile threshold for a query.
In...
2022-04-07
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2022
SQL Saturday is coming back to Jacksonville this May. I’m excited to go as I’ve like the city, but I’ve never been to this particular SQL Saturday. On May...
2022-04-07
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Daily Coping 6 Apr 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...
2022-04-06
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Flyway Mistakes
I have been doing some testing with Redgate’s Flyway Desktop as a new way of managing code for databases. However, just like Git, I appreciate clients, but I want...
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-21)
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If I can’t use PWDENCRYPT, how am I supposed to use HASHBYTES?
For this week, here is a short post about reinventing the wheel. An interesting conversation happened on Twitter where Dave Dustin asked: “Does anybody have an example of using...
2022-04-06
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Power Automate – Date Expression Basics
In this new video series, Devin focuses on working with Power Automate Date Expressions. This first video is a primer to cover the basics of
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-23)
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Blogs
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
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