A New Word: Foilsick
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone – allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice,...
2025-10-31
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foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone – allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice,...
2025-10-31
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Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous transaction rollback, and aggressive log truncation. A complete overview of how ADR achieves this is...
2025-11-17 (first published: 2025-10-31)
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Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced platforms and the most ambitious strategies collapse under the weight of doubt. For Chief Data...
2025-10-30
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Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This one surprised me. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. Looking...
2025-10-29
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If your production SQL Servers are still running 2016 (or older) you’re basically banking on inertia. Sure, it’s been stable. But that doesn’t guarantee it’ll stay safe or compliant....
2025-10-29
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Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely
Indexes are fantastic when you’re reading data—and a tax when you’re writing it. Every INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE has to...
2025-10-28
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I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a few entries. Here’s a look at the blogs people published. First as always, Rob Farley...
2025-10-28
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I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for Friday afternoon, so I'll be around for the regular conference from Tuesday evening through Friday....
2025-10-27
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I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work with 20 backup files. I decided to test this. This is part of a series...
2025-10-27
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Ollama SQL FastStart kit just works out of the box. It makes it easy to spin the whole Docker Compose stack not in minutes but seconds! Continue reading →
The...
2025-11-14 (first published: 2025-10-27)
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By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers