Earlier this year, I embarked on a bit of a project to tidy up the indexes in a sizeable database. This database has over 900 tables, and there are...
2024-08-12 (first published: 2024-07-29)
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Mala Mahadevan
(blog) asks how we manage our database-related code.
Where do you keep...
2024-08-12
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As a data professional, you’ll often get a phone call, email, or trouble ticket that says “SQL Server is slow, my query is slow, or things are slow”. This...
2024-08-12
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hiddled – adj. feeling of loneliness of having to keep a secret to yourself. I don’t know I am often hiddled. I don’t tend to keep secrets by myself....
2024-08-09
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As someone attending the event since 2011, I would like to share my personal experience, the value of attending, and how the event has helped me throughout my career....
2024-08-09 (first published: 2024-07-24)
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What will the technology world look like in 2030? Cloud computing will naturally be the backbone of the world but I think with variants in “decentralising” concepts. By this...
2024-08-09 (first published: 2024-07-31)
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Doc Pop and Evan Prodromou discuss the past, present, and future of ActivityPub and the fediverse.
2024-08-09
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Why am I focussing on RWA (real world assets) as the next big thing? The WEF predicted that by 2027, 10% of the world’s GDP could be stored on...
2024-08-09
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We all know that choosing the right basic SQL training is absolutely crucial if you want your SQL journey to be a success story, especially when you're starting from...
2024-08-08 (first published: 2024-08-07)
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Seven things every WordPress user should know about Gravatar
2024-08-08
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By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
Hi everyone, We are selling cars and have a range of options at our...
hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers