#SqlBits and SSIS custom components
If you are in anyway interested in SQL Server and live in the UK, you cant of failed to of...
2011-04-11
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Dave Ballantynes blog
Do you know SqlServer ? Do you want an iPad ?
If you’ve answered yes to both of those questions , Jacob Sebastian has some more question for you.
Every day in March...
2011-03-12
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“Apparently, you signed a software services agreement without fully understanding it.”
I am not a lawyer. Let me say that again, I am not a lawyer.
Todays Dilbert has prompted me...
2011-02-24
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Denali Paging–Key seek lookups
In my previous post “Denali Paging – is it win.win ?” I demonstrated the use of using the Paging functionality within Denali. ...
2010-11-19
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Denali Paging–Is it win/win ?
I'm not one for automatically poo-pooing new ideas, new practices and new technology. Rather I like to take a measured...
2010-11-10
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The best things in life are free
Greg Gonzalez (blog | twitter) of SqlSentry, last night released a very cool new and free product. Plan explorer is a...
2010-10-21
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An impossible case
In a previous blog entry (Inconsistent NullIf behaviour), Jeff Moden and Dan Halliday(twitter) both made a very similar observation.
When executing...
2010-09-06
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Kent SqlServer UserGroup
I am now in the process of arranging the 2nd meeting of the kent sqlserver user group. This will be...
2010-08-27
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Kent SQL Server User Group
Well , that was an experience.
It was my first time arranging anything like that and it seemed to me that...
2010-08-19
671 reads
Inconsistent NullIF Behaviour ?
NullIf can be a very handy function sometimes. For those who have not used it, if the result of the...
2010-08-06
671 reads
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
MBOX Email Conversion for Backup: Which Format Is Best?
I have several important email accounts stored in MBOX format from clients like Thunderbird...
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