T-SQL Tuesday #190–Mastering a New Technical Skill
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great invitation that is near and dear to my heart: mastering a new or existing technical...
2025-09-09
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It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great invitation that is near and dear to my heart: mastering a new or existing technical...
2025-09-09
77 reads
In today’s digital landscape, data is both a strategic asset and a potential liability. Organizations are generating vast amounts of information across cloud platforms, on-premises systems, and hybrid environments....
2025-09-08
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Part of my job at work is to update Transact-SQL reference content. System dynamic management views (DMVs) have permissions that are managed in the SQL Server Database Engine source...
2025-09-08 (first published: 2025-08-23)
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Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the new Copilot chat features. I decided to give those a try in trying to get...
2025-09-08
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In the blink of an eye, summer has passed. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for things to get back to “normal” after 10 weeks of events...
2025-09-08
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Over the years, I’ll admit, SQL Server has come a long way in making life easier for database administrators and with each version it keeps getting better and better....
2025-09-08 (first published: 2025-08-19)
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I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates HammerDB benchmarking for SQL Server using Docker. If you’ve ever needed to run TPC-C or...
2025-09-06
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Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while they are alive when it makes a difference to them. Write it in a letter...
2025-09-05
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From where I stand, the decision between Cosmos DB and a traditional SQL database often wants to be chosen between a sports car and a reliable sedan. Both will...
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-18)
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I’m in the progress of migrating some legacy stuff at a client, and in their Power BI environment there are still quite some Power BI dataflows Gen1. I had...
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-20)
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I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers