SQL Server Infernals – Circle 5: Inconsistent Baptists
There’s a place in the SQL Server hell where you can find poor souls wandering the paths of their circle,...
2015-07-23 (first published: 2015-07-17)
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SpaghettiDBA
SQL Server Infernals – Circle 4: Anarchic Designers
Constraints are sometimes annoying in real life, but no society can exist without rules and regulations. The same concept is...
2015-07-07
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SQL Server Infernals – Circle 3: Shaky Typers
Choosing the right data type for your columns is first of all a design decision that has tremendous impact on...
2015-07-10 (first published: 2015-07-02)
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SQL Server Infernals – Circle 2: Generalizers
Object-Oriented programming taught us that generalizing is a good thing and, whenever possible, we should do it. Complex class hierarchies...
2015-06-29 (first published: 2015-06-24)
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SQL Server Infernals – Circle 1: Undernormalizers
There’s a special place in the SQL Server Hell for those who design their schema without following the Best Practices....
2015-06-17
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Announcing SQL Server Infernals
Today I’m starting a new blog series called “SQL Server Infernals”.
Throughout this series, I will take your hand and walk...
2015-06-09
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Native Client Aliases don’t like Trailing Spaces
I usually don’t post small things like this, but today I fought with this obnoxious problem long enough to convince me that...
2015-06-02 (first published: 2015-05-26)
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Counting the number of rows in a table
Don’t be fooled by the title of this post: while counting the number of rows in a table is a...
2015-05-25 (first published: 2015-05-18)
9,259 reads
How to post a T-SQL question on a public forum
If you want to have faster turnaround on your forum questions, you will need to provide enough information to the...
2015-04-24
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Tracking Table Usage and Identifying Unused Objects
One of the things I hate the most about “old” databases is the fact that unused tables are kept forever,...
2015-04-29 (first published: 2015-04-20)
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
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Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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