SQL Saturday Chicago: I’m speaking
If you’re in Chicago on March 17 and have some free time, why not check out all the cool kids?...
2018-02-19
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Confessions of a Microsoft Addict
STORPORT: Reading an ETL trace
One of the things I enjoy most is diagnosing storage latency. I honestly couldn’t tell you why I enjoy it...
2018-03-05 (first published: 2018-02-19)
3,599 reads
PaaS and the ever changing role of the DBA
I’ve never been a fan of a GUI for DBA work. Give me a hand crafted script or a list...
2017-12-26 (first published: 2017-12-12)
1,658 reads
How to be a successful innovator
Let’s say you have some obscure list of career goals for the year and one of those is to be...
2017-11-09
308 reads
Always update your views
I last posted about changing a table without changing a view that represents the table and how this may affect...
2017-10-03
360 reads
Don’t forget to drop your views
I had a fairly puzzling issue today, which took a few minutes to figure out. Some time ago I created...
2017-10-02 (first published: 2017-09-25)
2,790 reads
SQL Server: The danger of large data types
Databases are platforms that are designed to securely store and retrieve your data. Perhaps that’s why they’re called a data...
2017-09-22
408 reads
Offtopic: Lifehack: Old tech has many purposes
For those that don’t know, I live in Texas. Been here all my life. There are two main things north...
2017-09-15 (first published: 2017-09-11)
1,621 reads
SQL Server: SARGability part 2
In case you missed the first post on this topic, you can read it here: SQL Server: SARGability. This post...
2017-09-12 (first published: 2017-09-07)
1,763 reads
Thank you for Microsoft MVP
My head may very well explode. I was done some tuning today and glanced at the Outlook new mail notification....
2017-09-02
372 reads
Blogs
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026
By Steve Jones
I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
Forums
Cumulative Update 23 - KB5074819 - Database Mail - No longer working.
Hi there, Has anyone else had any trouble with Database Mail in Cumulative Update...
Script Task execution error with HTTP request
I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...
SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer...
Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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