Help the fight against cancer
Tom Roush The SQL Family lost a much admired member to cancer last month, Tom Roush. In our little community,...
2018-02-07
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Born SQL with Randolph West
Speaking at SQLSaturday 725 in Victoria
Victoria is on an island off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia. The island is wisely called Vancouver Island. It...
2018-01-31
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Speaking at SQLBits next month
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I will be presenting for the first time at SQLBits in London,...
2018-01-24
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Secure or fast? Secure, obviously …
By now you have probably seen the news about a major flaw in the design of CPUs from all major...
2018-01-17
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The cloud is not just someone else’s computer
A year ago, I wrote in a post that cloud computing is just someone else’s data center. I was wrong. Whether...
2018-01-10
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Welcome to 2018
I have been working on a new information session, which I’m hoping to deliver this year. It’s about one of...
2018-01-03
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No moving parts, the story of persistent memory
In November 2017, during the PASS Summit keynote, Microsoft’s Bob Ward (Principal Architect) demonstrated a “diskless database” running on Hewlett-Packard...
2017-12-27
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Disable, don’t delete those indexes
A quick post this week, since it’s that time of the year when people do gift exchanges and put up...
2017-12-20
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2017-12-13
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All Mac users should do this immediately
This post is a public service announcement for all users of macOS High Sierra (10.13). (Note: Apple has already released...
2017-12-06
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Blogs
The Benefits of Teaching
By Brian Kelley
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...
Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!
By DataOnWheels
I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...
The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
By Steve Jones
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of...
Forums
Unlocking Data Transformation: My journey with dbt (Data Build Tool) on SQL Server
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Putting the Player with the Number
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Your Security Checkup
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Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers