I wrote about sequences in an editorial recently and decided to start using them. Creating one turned out to be surprisingly easy. I had a table I’d been logging...
2020-06-19 (first published: 2020-06-03)
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I’ve 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...
2020-06-19
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As you know, I spoke to 12 Chapter Leaders and 4 Regional Mentors yesterday. All are very upset with PASS right now and feel slighted, which as a volunteer...
2020-06-19
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Last month I blogged about using Docker to run SQL Server as a quick and easy way to get SQL Server up and running. While it continues to be...
2020-06-19
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I grew up in the South. The capital of the Confederacy was a short drive from my house. We studied the Civil War. I watched the Dukes on TV,...
2020-06-19
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I’m working on a project where it’s useful to automate environment setup and teardown for testing some devops deployment scenarios for databases using transactional replication. To make this easier,...
2020-06-19 (first published: 2020-06-05)
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I blog a fair amount and do you want to know what the most annoying part of the process is? ... Continue reading
2020-06-18
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I was recently asked a question on a forum by a person who was frustrated with all the tool choices we have for measuring performance. Moreover, they were frustrated...
2020-06-18
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I’ve 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...
2020-06-18
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I recently posted a graph to twitter and asked people to explain it. Let’s look at the graph. The graph is from Fitbit. It shows the number of steps...
2020-06-18 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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