Daily Coping 2 Jul 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...
2021-07-02
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Blog Posts
EightKB Summer 2021 Edition
The schedule for EightKB Summer 2021 Edition has been announced! Here’s the schedule: – N.B. – I particularly like that if you click on the session on the website,...
2021-07-02 (first published: 2021-06-15)
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Is the [sysname] SQL Server System Data Type Alias Name Case-Insensitive?
(last updated: 2021-07-02 @ 19:55 EST / 2021-07-02 @ 23:55 UTC ) The sysname data type (in SQL Server) is a system-provided, though not built-in, alias for NVARCHAR(128). This...
2021-07-02
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Quickly Determining Azure SQL Database Size
Recently I needed to determine how much storage space each database on a logical server was consuming. I was doing some DR testing and I need to give the...
2021-07-02
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Daily Coping 1 Jul 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...
2021-07-01
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I Still Can’t Believe It!
I received my MVP award letter from Microsoft today. This will make the fourth time I’ve been awarded and I still can’t believe it. I just wanted to help...
2021-07-01
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MVP for Another Year 2021-2022
A few minutes ago, I received an email from Microsoft presenting me with the 2021-2022 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. This is my 8th award and I am...
2021-07-01
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SQL Homework – July 2021 – Log shipping
Log shipping is probably the least complicated and easiest to configure of the various methods of creating a secondary copy ... Continue reading
2021-07-01
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Daily Coping 30 Jun 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...
2021-06-30
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Data Mesh: Centralized vs decentralized data architecture
One of the biggest differences between the Data Mesh and other data platform architectures is a data mesh is a highly decentralized distributed data architecture as opposed to a...
2021-06-30
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Blogs
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
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...
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Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers