Answer the Question Asked
“Bill, are you running SQL R2 on your desktop?”
This seems like a simple enough question, yet I usually cannot get...
2012-01-13
836 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
DBAs@Midnight 6 week roundup
We’ve been awfully busy these last few weeks, what with holidays and work and whatnot. But that hasn’t stopped us...
2012-01-12
688 reads
SELECT GetDate() – 30 AS [This actually works??];
I just ran across this in a piece of code (that I didn’t write):
… WHERE Thing >GETDATE()- 30
Aaaand it works....
2011-12-19
1,231 reads
PASS Board of Directors – Who I’m Voting For
I was inspired by fellow blogger and all around good guy Nic Cain (Twitter, blog) to write about the PASS BoD...
2011-12-15
666 reads
#SQLLove for my Mentor
In 1986, my big brother Jim accidentally encouraged me on my road to geekdom by purchasing an Apple][e, and later...
2011-12-14
736 reads
SQL Server is Smarter Than You
I had a brief email discussion recently, which could be effectively be boiled down to:
Them: “Are foreign key constraints more...
2011-12-08
840 reads
How to Build a Resume (that doesn’t suck)
Resumes are like opinions, which are like something else: everybody’s got one. And if you don’t have one, then certain...
2011-12-06
3,159 reads
Convince me to read books (WHERE LEN(argument)
While you wait for my awesome upcoming blog on data exception notification with SSRS, let’s pursue a whim of mine.
I...
2011-11-30
1,673 reads
Stop SOPA…it already happened in Denmark #StopSOPA
I put out the call to stop SOPA, and one Twitter friend wrote back:
Good luck! We have it in Denmark....
2011-11-16
551 reads
Un-SQL Friday: Stop SOPA!
This will be an unusually political Un-SQL Friday – and it’s two days early, to boot – but I’m making an exception...
2011-11-15
1,057 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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