Data Weekender v3.1
I am super excited about this new version of Data Weekender, coming up on Saturday, May 15, 2021. This will be the third time I have been selected to...
2021-05-08
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Blog Posts
Thanks Kathi and Mala
I have to thank Kathi and Mala for putting on the WIT Mental Health and Wellness today today. I was honored to present, but I was more glad that...
2021-05-08
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Altering a Computed Column in a Temporal Table in Azure SQL
System-versioned temporal tables were introduced in SQL Server 2016. They provide information about data stored in the table at any point in time by storing an effective dated version...
2021-05-07 (first published: 2021-04-22)
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Basic OFFSET–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. The other day I saw an article on...
2021-05-07 (first published: 2021-04-21)
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Daily Coping 7 May 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...
2021-05-07
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Goal Progress for April 2021
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2021. As I look at goal progress for 2021, I’m going...
2021-05-07
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Understanding NUMA in SQL Server VMs
Last Updated on January 8, 2022 by John Morehouse What really is NUMA and why do we as database administrators care? NUMA stands for “Non-uniform Memory Access” and allows...
2021-05-07
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A notebook, a guideline, and a workshop
I've come to the conclusion that most of us need to hear this: You cannot do Bullet Journaling wrong; your journal is a tool that's there for you, not...
2021-05-06
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A notebook, a guideline, and a workshop
I've come to the conclusion that most of us need to hear this: You cannot do Bullet Journaling wrong; your journal is a tool that's there for you, not...
2021-05-06
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Daily Coping 6 May 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...
2021-05-06
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
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...
Forums
Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
In one of my environments I have 3 pairs of Always On SQL 2022...
Learning From Breakage
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Python in Action to Auto-Generate an Optimized PostgreSQL Index Strategy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Python in Action to Auto-Generate...
Question of the Day
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