Tech Books: Caveat Emptor
These days, we have a myriad of ways to judge whether any given product – like, say, a book on SQL...
2011-01-05
776 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014
Hello and welcome to the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2011!
2010 was a great year for T-SQL Tuesdays, dreamed up and...
2011-01-04
1,288 reads
RTFM365, Week 4
The days are just flying. I have to admit: I may have missed a day or two in the rush...
2011-01-03
488 reads
Beginning Powershell Companion PDF
Howdy all…as is so often the case, I’m studying something – Powershell – and I’m in need of a reference to help...
2011-01-03
2,686 reads
2010 PASS Summit Interviews
It’s entirely fair to say that the highlight of my professional year is the PASS Summit in Seattle, and the...
2010-12-30
1,795 reads
Quick Thoughts on Learning
I’m looking for the attribution for a quote – it’s something I first heard from Sean, and we say it all...
2010-12-29
502 reads
T-SQL: CASE Statement
This is a companion piece to the MidnightDBA video T-SQL: CASE Statement.
In short, a CASE statement is a simplified set...
2010-12-28
2,710 reads
RTFM365, Week 3
Well, my brain has increased by 12.4% in terms of SQL knowledge this week, as a direct result of my...
2010-12-28
759 reads
PASS Summit Speaker Evals – THE ANALYSIS
Rule: No Sushi with Adam within 24 hours of session
I’m inspired by Brent Ozar‘s and Andy Leonard‘s sharing of their PASS...
2010-12-23
777 reads
RTFM365, Week 2 (AND week in review)
Hooboy…the super-structured format of the first two RTFM365 posts just isn’t sustainable for me. I’m going to have to go...
2010-12-20
662 reads
Blogs
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...
Forums
CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?
hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...
Help! MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait stalls
Hi I have an overnight process that moves allot of claims records Been working...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers