Modernizing Your T-SQL: The Sequence Object
This is one of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server.
Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL Server...
2020-03-10
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Blog Posts
SQL Database MI benefits
As I see a huge number of customers migrating their on-prem databases to the Azure cloud, the main question they ask is about whether they should go with an...
2020-03-10 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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T-SQL Tuesday #124 – Monitoring Query Store’s Impact on Your System
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blogging party is brought to you well by me and I wanted to talk more about Query Store. I did write a book on it...
2020-03-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #124–Query Store in Action
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #124 and I’m dropping a quick post as I’ve had lots of other stuff to do since returning from my sabbatical. Tracy Boggiano is the...
2020-03-10
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Let’s Call It What It Is: Complexity Debt
Technical debt get deprioritized too often because business sees the word, “technical.” It doesn’t matter what the true meaning is. And it’s a big problem. It really needs proper...
2020-03-09 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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Query Store, Plan Forcing, and DROP/CREATE
I absolutely love Query Store and the ability it provides to force a plan is amazing. However, there are a lot of little gotchas in this functionality. I just...
2020-03-09 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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A trusty old friend – The BCP utility
One of the requirements that springs up around data stores – regardless of if they are relational, not relational, cloud based or some other variety is (unsurprisingly) the need...
2020-03-08
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Notes from SQLSaturday Tampa 2020
The notes! Attendance was the speaker dinner was great! Always nice to have a lot of people there. During the day logistics all went well, though it’s still a...
2020-03-08
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Thanks for joining us at SQLSaturday Baton Rouge 2020 Business Intelligence edition
Thanks for joining us at the first annual SQLSaturday Baton Rouge Business Intelligence yesterday, put on by the Baton Rouge Analytics and Intelligence Network (#GOBRAIN!), an official chapter of...
2020-03-08
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ASF 029: Tomaz Kastrun interview
Introduction Tomaž Kastrun is BI & DEV developer, data analyst & data science. With more than 15 years of experiences in the field of databases, business warehouses and development,...
2020-03-06 (first published: 2020-02-28)
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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