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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Blog Posts
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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Long names vs short names (or aliases)
I remember when I was first learning to code there was always the argument of how long a name should ... Continue reading
2021-06-30 (first published: 2021-06-15)
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Setup Full-Text using T-SQL–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I wrote a previous post on how to...
2021-06-30
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #015: Aggregations
In early 2011 Jes Borland invited us to write about aggregations: I want to hear how you solved business problems with aggregate functions. I want to see your cool...
2021-06-30
42 reads
Using Readable Secondary in Azure SQLDB
When using a Geo Replicated Azure SQL Database Readable Secondary there are a few things to consider when it comes to performance tuning. Check out this episode of Data Exposed:...
2021-06-30
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
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Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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