Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATETIME
Last year I ran a series of posts about Database Fundamentals. Over the next few weeks, I will cover the...
2018-02-21
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Born SQL with Randolph West
Why nested views are bad
Nested views are bad. Let’s get that out of the way. What is a nested view anyway? Imagine that you...
2018-02-14
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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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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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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
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provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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