The trade-offs associated with low-code solutions
Low-code solutions often accelerate development and make tasks accessible to people who can’t or don’t want to write their own code. But it’s important to remember that it’s a...
2025-03-24
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Blog Posts
The trade-offs associated with low-code solutions
Low-code solutions often accelerate development and make tasks accessible to people who can’t or don’t want to write their own code. But it’s important to remember that it’s a...
2025-03-24
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The trade-offs associated with low-code solutions
Low-code solutions often accelerate development and make tasks accessible to people who can’t or don’t want to write their own code. But it’s important to remember that it’s a...
2025-03-24
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TSQL Tuesday #184: Mentoring and Sponsorship
Thank you to Deborah Melkin for hosting TSQL Tuesday this month! I’ve always considered mentoring and sponsorship very structured. Now, I wonder if they’re also small things we do...
2025-03-24 (first published: 2025-03-11)
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Advice I Like: The Main Thing
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – from Excellent Advice for Living We can summarize this advice as focus on what’s important. I...
2025-03-21
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Tally Table Alternatives: #SQLNewBlogger
We published an article recently at SQL Server Central on Tally Tables in Fabric from John Miner. In it he showed how this can be efficient. A day after...
2025-03-21 (first published: 2025-03-12)
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T-SQL Tuesday #184 Mentoring and Sponsorship
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Deborah Melkin – Data Platform MVP, WIT co-lead and WITspiration founder. Deb’s invitation is to blog about mentoring and sponsorship. What...
2025-03-21 (first published: 2025-03-11)
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Sic Transit Gloria Community
When Covid took out the PASS organization, I had someone say to me, “Well, that’s the end of the data community.” My response was pretty simple, “Nope. The community...
2025-03-20
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DATEADD Truncates the Number Parameter: #SQLNewBlogger
This was an interesting thing I saw in a Question of the Day submission. I hadn’t thought about the issue, but apparently DATEADD truncates values rather than rounding them....
2025-03-19
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Deploy at Low Priority
Learn how to deploy schema changes in an always-online SQL Server environment without a maintenance window. This utility reduces blocking and improves deployment success.
The problem
I attempted to deploy a...
2025-03-19 (first published: 2025-03-07)
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Blogs
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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BCP on Linux
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