Choosing the right professional
I’m writing this blog post from my bed, you may think that’s a little too much information there is a...
2012-01-11
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Richard Douglas
2011 – The dissection
Blimey, doesn’t seem like a year since I wrote my last end of year review End of year review 2010...
2012-01-01
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Why I blog #Meme15
I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...
2011-12-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #025 – How to view the size of all your databases – #TSQL2sDay
It’s that time of the month again, no not time, T-SQL time! If you have not heard of T-SQL Tuesday...
2011-12-13
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Speaking Engagements
It only seems like a couple of weeks ago since I wrote a post about new years resolutions which you...
2011-11-15
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Writing queries without data
Sometimes it’s not possible to have the data you need in order to create the most efficient queries possible. This...
2011-11-15
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Top 5 Third Party Quotes
Unless you’ve worked in a vacuum the likelyhood is that you either are a third company or you have many...
2011-11-09
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SQLRelay: The Final Sprint
The UK SQL community has never had so many events in such a short space of time. Last week there...
2011-10-06
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SQLRelay: The Third Leg
Feedback from the second leg of SQLRelay was very positive indeed. The attendees from my Maidenhead group were very impressed...
2011-10-05
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Blogs
SQL Server Source Control on a $0 Budget
By Kevin3NF
The Source Control Dilemma Every DBA has been there. Trying to keep track of...
CHOOSE’ing a Beer: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it...
Don’t Treat Your Data Catalog Like a Data Museum
Introduction Treating your data catalog like a “data museum”—a static collection where information quietly...
Forums
Fantasy Football 2025
The thread for the league in 2025. Players from last year have priority.
String or Binary Truncation Error Strange Behavior (SQL 2019)
Forgot I posted a similar issue back in 2020, String or Binary Truncation Error...
Transactional Replication from Read replica
If I have Read replica (in Azure SQL MI), can it be used as...
Question of the Day
Replacing a Null
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?
DECLARE @value INT = NULL; SELECT ISNULL(@value, 100.5) AS Result;See possible answers