SQLSaturday Round Table at the PASS Summit (Early Reminder)
Once again this year we’ll be holding a meeting open to all SQLSaturday event leaders and key team members (and...
2011-07-11
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Blog Posts
Striping Backups in SQL Backup Pro
There are times you really do want to stripe backups across multiple files. If you have a short backup window,...
2011-07-11
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Subtle Errors When Using Dates-Part 1
I was reviewing some code recently that has been in production for a while and I saw something like this:
set...
2011-07-11
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The Dog Died, and The Cat's on the Roof
Despite the title, this is a serious blog entry, dedicated to all you pet lover's out there. Although, I seek to...
2011-07-11
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Upcoming Content Preview
It has been a few weeks since I last posted. I know, I’m a slacker, thanks for pointing that out. ...
2011-07-10
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Baseball and Scheduling Your Vacation, and a Puzzle?
I saw an article in the newspaper titled How to Visit 30 Ballparks in 35 Days This Summer. I think...
2011-07-08
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Brute-force searching for data.
Today, I needed a way of searching through a database, any database, looking for a certain string. The procedure I...
2011-07-08
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Count to 41
My children never cease to delight me in all kinds of ways, but never more when they come up with some...
2011-07-08
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Free SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course
If you are new to Business Intelligence (BI) and learn best by watching videos and “playing”, then this course is...
2011-07-08
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How to merge (combine) date intervals in T-SQL
On my current project, I am dealing with date intervals in T-SQL very heavily. I’ve hit interesting issue recently – how...
2011-07-08
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Do the Experts Become...
Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments...
Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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