Practical Web Scraping–Getting Started
As part of my learning goals for 2018, I wanted to work through various books. This is part of my...
2019-02-15
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Blog Posts
Speaker at SQL Saturday’s Guatemala city 2019
I’m very happy to announce that for the second year in a row I will be participating as speaker in...
2019-02-15
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Chicago
I am so excited and honored to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago on...
2019-02-15
100 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday Chicago
I am so excited and honored to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago on Saturday, March 23, 2019. I will be presenting my...
2019-02-15
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 6: Query History
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-14
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 5.1: A Digression on the Unsuitability of Fisher Information for SQL Use Cases
By Steve Bolton
…………One of the major thrusts of my various mistutorial series has been to drive home the point that...
2019-02-14 (first published: 2019-01-25)
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It’s always parameter sniffing (Part 2): SET options
This is the sequel to “It’s always parameter sniffing (part 1).” In that post, we identified the stored procedure, and...
2019-02-14 (first published: 2019-01-23)
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Learn about the State of Database DevOps Next Week
It’s a week to my webinar with Donovan Brown (bt, yg), leader of the League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates,...
2019-02-14
228 reads
Undercover Catalogue 0.2.1, Fixes An Issue With The Recording Of Unicode And MAX Datatype Lengths
Please see https://sqlundercover.com/undercover-catalogue-0-2/ for full details on the Undercover Catalogue and how to obtain it.
We’ve spotted an issue where unicode...
2019-02-14
123 reads
Azure SQL Database and Transaction Log
Checking out the transaction log in Azure SQL Database. If you are curious like me, you will want to know...
2019-02-13
187 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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