Who did what to my database and when…
One of the most popular questions on forums / SO etc is, “How can i find out who dropped a table,...
2016-08-30 (first published: 2016-08-22)
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Dave Ballantynes blog
Why is creating excel sheets from SSIS so hard ?
If there is one process that should be simpler than it is out of the box, it is creating Excel...
2016-06-17
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.Net 4.6.1 and MultiSubnetFailover
Im not a big clustering/HA expert, but I obviously understand the need for such things to exist
However, the standard...
2016-03-24
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A journey to a movie recommender in U-SQL
I haven’t gotten to involved in the whole “Big Data” movement to much, I’ve kept an arms length watch and...
2016-03-23 (first published: 2016-03-20)
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A first look at SQL Server 2016–String_split
I’ve been developing T-SQL for about 20 years now and almost since day one there has been functionality that , IMO,...
2016-03-13
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My favourite wait state– ASYNC_NETWORK_IO
Sometimes it does feel that a problem is a database problem until proven otherwise. When this does occur I have...
2016-03-03 (first published: 2016-02-28)
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SQL Saturday 496 Exeter – PreCon Agenda
Hi
Unfortunately due to matters outside of my control, SQL Saturday 502 in Edinburgh has been cancelled, I would like...
2016-02-14
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SQL From South West to Scotland : SQLSaturdays #496 & #502
I’m happy, honoured and humbled to be able to say that I will be presenting pre-cons and both SQL Saturday...
2016-01-17
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A first look at Redgate Reference Data Manager
Over the past few years one of the big drives and innovations in the SQL Server world, has been to bring...
2016-01-05
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SQL Saturday 467 - Precon - Query processing and internals
Im not doing a tremendous amount of public speaking this year and concentrating on more professional matters, however im pleased...
2015-10-04
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
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...
Forums
How Do I Choose the Best Bike Transport Service in Gurgaon?
Choosing the best Bike Transport Service in Gurgaon requires careful comparison and user discussion....
Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
In one of my environments I have 3 pairs of Always On SQL 2022...
Learning From Breakage
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Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers