SELECT * Hurts Performance, Badly
Quite a few years ago, I wrote a post about SELECT * and performance. That post had a bit of a click-bait title (freely admitted). I wrote the post...
2021-02-01 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Blog Posts
[Coping] Hidden Wounds
Through high school and college, I carried deep wounds due to what was going on at home. Only a handful of people outside of my family knew what what...
2021-01-29 (first published: 2021-01-20)
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Getting a New Remote Git Branch–#SQLNewBlogger
I was notified of a new PR at DataSaturdays, and I went to look at the changes. In this case, a lot of styling items in the code, which...
2021-01-29 (first published: 2021-01-13)
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Goal Progress–Jan 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...
2021-01-29
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3 new PowerShell functions for refreshing Power BI reports on a Power BI Report Server
I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that a new version of the ReportingServicesTools module went out last week, and it includes 3 new PowerShell functions for working...
2021-01-28
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Daily Coping 28 Jan 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...
2021-01-28
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Platforms for Events
in my last post I wrote about thinking of the tools as being a separate thing from the event. Not a complicated concept, but does it matter? Maybe. Let...
2021-01-28 (first published: 2021-01-16)
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Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Setting Up (Part 1)
Welcome to a new year, and a new look at what I’ve learned in my time as a beginner and junior DBA. So, I’ve been in this DBA gig...
2021-01-28 (first published: 2021-01-19)
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Daily Coping 27 Jan 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...
2021-01-27
6 reads
I’ll be speaking at SQL Server Virtual Conference from C# Corner
I’ll be speaking at the SQL Server Virtual Conference from C# Corner, Friday Jan 29, 2021, with my friend Julie Koesmarno ( b | t ). I’ll be showing...
2021-01-27
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Blogs
Why Databases Still Fascinate Me
By Chris Yates
I get asked a lot about why or how I began working with databases...
Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
By Steve Jones
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook...
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
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Question of the Day
The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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