AI and ChatGPT are all the rage these days. Seems like around every corner is another break-through in how we interact with data, regardless of if that data is...
2025-01-20 (first published: 2024-11-01)
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I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM UTC. The topic is about window functions, something that really interests me and that should...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2024-10-31)
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I looked at row_number() in a previous post. Now I want to build on that and do some counting of rows with COUNT() and the OVER clause. I’ll show...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2024-10-30)
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Recently I received a cry for help over Teams. The issue was that an application was throwing up the following SQL error, The query processor ran out of internal...
2024-11-13 (first published: 2024-10-30)
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I was the principal author of this SIOS whitepaper, which describes how to build a 2-node SQL Server cluster in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) spanning multiple zones. Today, I’ll...
2024-11-13 (first published: 2024-10-29)
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I still have a tendency to talk about all the cons of a proposed solution I don’t believe is the optimal one. There’s an old saying that “no one...
2024-11-08 (first published: 2024-10-29)
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One of the things that many DBAs struggle with is managing space across an estate. There might be one or two servers that you watch closely, or that are...
2024-11-11 (first published: 2024-10-28)
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