Dealing with foreign keys when deleting rows.
Deleting rows from a table is a pretty simple task right? Not always. Foreign keys, while providing a ton of ... Continue reading
2021-10-07
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Blog Posts
Restore to SQL Managed Instance
Now that we have a Managed Instance built, the next question is how do we get data across? I will break this up into separate posts but the lesson...
2021-10-07
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Daily Coping 6 Oct 2021
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...
2021-10-06
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How to Design Backups in SQL Server?
The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) are basic concepts related to the information to be recovered and the time that it will take to recover....
2021-10-06 (first published: 2021-09-24)
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Join me at SQL Trail 2021 to hear the next thing about Temporal Tables
I’ve had the privilege of presenting all over the world about temporal tables in SQL Server including the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The theme of the...
2021-10-06
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Login Timeouts
I was recently approached at work about a company that was seeing tons of timeouts in SQL Server. I was asked how to troubleshoot this. There are lots of...
2021-10-06 (first published: 2021-09-27)
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Using NULLIF–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I ran across the NULLIF() function recently, and...
2021-10-06
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Azure Purview is generally available
After a very long public preview (9 months), Azure Purview is finally generally available (GA). I described Purview in a previous blog (New Microsoft data governance product: Azure Purview)....
2021-10-05
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Daily Coping 5 Oct 2021
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...
2021-10-05
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SQL Homework – October 2021 – What can you tell me about the server your SQL Server instance is on?
Here are some really common questions I get: How many CPUs does ServerA have? How much memory does ServerA have? ... Continue reading
2021-10-05
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Blogs
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026
By Steve Jones
I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
SSMS 22 still inserting tabs instead of spaces
I’m not trying to start up a debate whether you should use tabs or...
Forums
Cumulative Update 23 - KB5074819 - Database Mail - No longer working.
Hi there, Has anyone else had any trouble with Database Mail in Cumulative Update...
Script Task execution error with HTTP request
I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...
SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer...
Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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