Database DevOps – Where do I start?
By now you have most likely heard the term DevOps and you are most likely working for a company that has implemented DevOps is some manner, that could be...
2020-07-29 (first published: 2020-07-17)
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By now you have most likely heard the term DevOps and you are most likely working for a company that has implemented DevOps is some manner, that could be...
2020-07-29 (first published: 2020-07-17)
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One of the concepts in Snowflake that I find many struggle with is how constraints are handled. If you come from a traditional database platform such as Microsoft SQL...
2020-07-21 (first published: 2020-07-08)
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How many times have you been afraid to hear “No”? We have all been there because we have been trained over the years to perceive “No” as a rejection,...
2020-07-17 (first published: 2020-07-08)
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We have all done it, get some sort of cryptic error and the first place we go to search is Google hoping the sea of message boards and blog...
2020-03-23 (first published: 2020-03-14)
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Day 2 was my opportunity to be focused and dive into a few technologies that were really peaking my interest, namely Azure Synapse Analytics and SQL Server 2019. Since...
2019-11-13 (first published: 2019-11-06)
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What an amazing first day at Microsoft Ignite that all started at about 6:30 this morning when I got in line to be one of the first 3000...
2019-11-05
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Alex Yates (b | t) is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday (the 119th edition) with asking us to write about something in our IT career that we have changes our minds...
2019-10-15 (first published: 2019-10-09)
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Back with a new focus First let me say wow can’t believe that it has been almost 3 years since I have blogged. The last few years my career...
2019-06-16
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The two most costly human capital expenses an organization will have is the onboarding and offboarding of staff. Just take a moment to think about that and if your...
2019-06-26 (first published: 2019-06-12)
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One of the most challenging aspects of being a good leader is building a team that can support the initiatives you will set forth. Without a team that will...
2019-06-14 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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I've got a web application for my side business. I've added a SQL Server...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers