One interesting concept in SQL Server is Deferred Name Resolution. This is something many developers struggle with understanding how this works and where it works. In the Microsoft docs,...
2025-03-10 (first published: 2025-03-03)
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waldosia– n. a condition in which you keep scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, as if your...
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Digital exhaust, or data exhaust, is the information you generate as you interact digitally. We've typically thought of this in terms of tracking cookies and the like, but it...
2025-03-07 (first published: 2025-02-25)
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This is my (late) answer to my own invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #183. I was very busy a few weeks ago when the invite when out (glad it was...
2025-03-07 (first published: 2025-02-26)
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I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and it was a great post. In that one, the sample database Northwind was...
2025-03-06 (first published: 2025-01-29)
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I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and a follow up post on using your own backup. One of the things...
2025-03-06 (first published: 2025-02-05)
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Test Data Manager (TDM) is a suite of products from Redgate that make it easy to build dev and test databases in seconds. It’s a nice rewrite of a...
2025-03-06 (first published: 2024-07-10)
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The Never-Ending Question in IT: Which Approach to Take? As a Consultant, I would typically answer with = it depends! Then a typical conversation starts with an expression of...
2025-03-05
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Introduction Do you remember the effort of tidying up your BI and reporting systems, only to find yourself facing a labyrinth of inconsistent data, missing values, and unclear ownership?...
2025-03-05 (first published: 2025-02-20)
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I’m excited to be speaking at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference this year, which takes place March 31 through April 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will be co-presenting...
2025-03-05 (first published: 2025-02-20)
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By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
By Steve Jones
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would...
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Thank you for attending my PASS Summit 2025 session Answering the Auditor’s Call with...
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What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'Person.Person')) AS [Object Definition]; GOSee possible answers