Protesting government web surveillance: Feb 11 Blackout
We at the MidnightDBA compound* believe firmly in the right to privacy, and so have watched with dismay over the...
2014-01-13
452 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Applied SQL: Find and replace using regular expressions in SSMS
Regular expressions are searches on steroids, the wildcats of the wildcard world*. Even if you never ever write CLR, regex...
2014-01-10
1,243 reads
Clarity in T-SQL: Adjoining Socks
One of my children is very literal, a true pedantic. “Is there any homework you need to do?” “No.” “Really?...
2014-01-04
583 reads
Parameterization – A quick note on a CSS SQL article
I just finished reading an excellent CSS article, How Simple Parameterization works, which is well written and well worth a...
2013-12-18
536 reads
Scalzi’s Law of Cleverness, as applied to resumes
John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) – science fiction writer, Hugo award winner, philosopher, and blogger extraordinaire – has an adage that I wish...
2013-12-16
940 reads
What a DBA wants for Christmas
In the first few years of ITBookworm.com, we made sure to make up holiday lists of the most awesome gadgets...
2013-12-12
666 reads
Be a Brilliant DBA
John Sanson (b|t) recently asked a bunch of us, “If you could give a DBA just one piece of advice,...
2013-12-10
518 reads
#TribalAwards with RedGate!
You know what? You’re doing a good job. You’re reading blogs, and that’s generally the sign of a person wanting...
2013-12-09
568 reads
It sure would be grand to have interesting interviews
Coincidentally, in a week of debate and thinking and writing on IT interviews and candidates, XKCD has gifted us with...
2013-11-22
538 reads
What should a candidate know about your company?
I had a great comment (Ryan McCauley’s) on yesterday’s post that led to a great conversation on Twitter. The comment mentioned...
2013-11-27 (first published: 2013-11-19)
2,065 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers