Name Your Defaults So SQL Server Doesn't
Something in SQL Server that isn’t always obvious to beginners is that when you create a default value for a column on a table, SQL Server creates a constraint...
2016-01-19
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FLX SQL
SQL New Blogger Challenge November 2015 Edition - Week 3 Digest
This week’s #sqlnewblogger posts!
Author Post @eleightondick [[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes @tomsql Adventures With TomSQL, aka Tom Staab @EdDebug [Automatically name primary key constraints in SSDT...
2015-11-19
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Selectively Locking Down Data - Gracefully
I have a situation where I need to retrieve the data in an encrypted column from, but don’t want to give all my users access to the symmetric key...
2015-11-18
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SQL New Blogger Challenge November 2015 Edition - Week 2 Digest
This week’s #sqlnewblogger posts!
Author Post @arrowdrive Anders On SQL: T-SQL Tuesday #72: Data modelling gone extremely wrong @rabryst Time After Time - An Introduction to Temporal Tables in SQL...
2015-11-12
Don't Trust the Wizard
If you need to move data from one table into a new table, or even tables in a database into another database, the Import/Export Wizard in SQL Server Management...
2015-11-11
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SQL New Blogger Challenge, November Edition, Week 1 Digest
Ed Leighton-Dick has renewed his New Blogger Challenge this month. Here are all (I think) the posts for this week after Ed posted his announcement. If I’ve missed any, please let...
2015-11-05
Why Ask Why?
Spend any time around a 4 year old, and you will inevitably find yourself involved in a conversation which evolves into this:
Please do this thing Why? Reasonable answer Why? Restatement...
2015-11-04
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Hello GETDATE() My Old Friend...
So you’ve decided that your new web application needs to record some page load time metrics so you can keep tabs on performance. Terrific! You set up a couple page load/complete...
2015-06-16
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Getting Over It or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Speaking
Consider this the outtakes from my previous post about speaking at SQL Saturday.
It took a while for me to build up the courage to finally get up in the...
2015-06-02
3 reads
I Spoke at SQLSat (and I Liked It)
That is the first and last Katy Perry reference you will find on this blog or anywhere else in my life.
Last weekend I spoke at the 4th edition of my “home”...
2015-05-22
2 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...
Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs
By Chris Yates
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Deleting data in large table
I have a large table with 17M+ rows for our package record audits. I've...
ETL Framework In Production
Hello, I am leveraging Python within SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, primarily through...