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 Saturday, March 23, 2019. I will be presenting my...
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
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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
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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
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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
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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