What's New In SQL 2019? at the Little Rock, AR SQL Server User Group
Thanks to everyone who joined the Little Rock SQL Server User Group for a night all about SQL Server 2019! We got off into tangents and use cases for...
2019-12-05
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Blog Posts
How Many Bytes Per Character in SQL Server: a Completely Complete Guide
A Completely Complete Guide to how many bytes are used to represent characters in the T-SQL string datatypes… Continue reading How Many Bytes Per Character in SQL Server: a...
2019-12-04 (first published: 2019-11-22)
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Introduction to the performance features on SQL Server on Linux
I’ve been tinkering with SQL Server on Linux lately and noted a few things in regards to performance I thought I would share with you. SQL Server 2019 on...
2019-12-04
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My latest presentations
Just wanted to make everyone aware of my latest presentations that I recently uploaded. Details below. I also have a list of all my presentations with slide decks here. Azure...
2019-12-04
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PASS HA/DR Open Q&A Extravaganza Dec 10
As leader of the PASS High Availability and Disaster Recovery virtual chapter, I invite you to bring your questions for a mega open Q&A session on Tuesday, December 10th,...
2019-12-04
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The XML data type is not immutable
Immutability In many programming languages, strings of text are immutable, meaning they don’t change. When you modify a string, a new string is created in memory by copying the...
2019-12-04
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Upgrading SQL Server 2017 Containers to 2019 non-root Containers with Data Volumes – Another Method
Yesterday in this post I described a method to correct permissions when upgrading a SQL Server 2017 container using Data Volumes to 2019’s non-root container on implementations that use...
2019-12-04 (first published: 2019-11-21)
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Azure SQL vs Azure Table Storage
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A year ago I built an app to keep track of pickup volleyball game scores and payments. It works well, but after a year...
2019-12-03
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Azure SQL vs Azure Table Storage
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A year ago I built an app to keep track of pickup volleyball game scores and payments. It works well, but after a...
2019-12-03
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Azure SQL vs Azure Table Storage
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A year ago I built an app to keep track of pickup volleyball game scores and payments. It works well, but after a year...
2019-12-03
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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