A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most of my adult life drinking whatever was closest, usually instant, usually while standing over the...
2026-08-12
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My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most of my adult life drinking whatever was closest, usually instant, usually while standing over the...
2026-08-12
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Jeff Taylor
(blog) asks us for our take on temp tables:
So, do you...
2026-08-31 (first published: 2026-08-12)
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Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's why you should read it if you're a DBA or security professional.
2026-08-11
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This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many people have stopped blogging that it’s a challenge to keep this going. Jeff Taylor has...
2026-08-11
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I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than simply creating one and using it. As I started digging into the topic, I realized...
2026-08-11
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Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin. When we are rejected, whatever the situation, many of us want to know why. We...
2026-08-10
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I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools to see how well things worked. I realized that AI isn’t great for everything and...
2026-08-10
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A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the diagnosis and it will usually stop at the first two subtasks that come to mind:...
2026-08-07
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It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to showcase a few things I’ve learned about my cars since the last one. In this...
2026-08-07
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An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales owns sales transactions, Finance owns budgets, and Shared Data owns common tables such as Customer,...
2026-08-06
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By ReviewMyDB
My T-SQL Tuesday #202 entry for Marlon Ribunal's invitation on memorable SQL Server outages....
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers