S–3–X Talk Week: Love, HR, and Sexy Shoes
We’re conducting S–3–X Talk Week here at the MidnightDBA #Awesomesauce blog. In the tradition of the first S-3-X week blog,...
2010-10-13
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SQL Awesomesauce
S–3–X Talk Week: This Totally Won’t be Awkward
We’re conducting S–E–X Talk Week here at the MidnightDBA #Awesomesauce blog, in honor of everyone’s favorite subject. In deference to the...
2010-10-11
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Forgotten T-SQL Cheat Sheet
You’ve seen the blog, you’ve downloaded the code…you even watched the 24HOP session recording…now own the Forgotten T-SQL Cheat Sheet!
Yessir,...
2010-10-11
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New Hotness: sys.objects and sys.schemas
Last month we talked about the old and busted syscomments- and the new hotness that is sys.sql_modules – for pulling code out of...
2010-10-08
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Today I Blog About Certifications (Instead of Studying)
I'm not in it for the money...exclusively...
I was talking to the older kids about homework yesterday, and I mentioned that...
2010-10-07
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How MUCH More Do You Make?
Yesterday, my SQLServerCentral.com editorial Why are we still talking about Women in Tech? was published, and we had a fine...
2010-10-07
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Tip: OVER and PARTITION BY
Here’s a quick summary of OVER and PARTITION BY (new in SQL 2005), for the uninitiated or forgetful…
OVER
OVER allows you...
2010-10-05
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Dear Users…Sincerely, Your IT Guys
Dear Users,
We, the tech people, understand that you just want technology to work so you can get your jobs done. ...
2010-09-30
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How to Prove a Fact (Again)
Sean’s latest rant – about a vendor with a dangerously small amount of SQL knowledge – has spurred me to talk about...
2010-09-29
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Journal: SQL Saturday #52
Friday
6am – up to catch an 8:30 flight. My daughter Lisette is going with me on this trip.
9:30am local time, we...
2010-09-27
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Blogs
Speaking at the 2025 PASS Data Community Summit
By Brian Kelley
I will be back in Seattle this year attending the 2025 PASS Data Community...
The Book of Redgate: Motivation
By Steve Jones
Another of our values is this: Motivation isn’t about carrots and sticks. Constant oversight...
A Six Week Break
By Steve Jones
Today is my last day of work for six weeks. I start my sabbatical...
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Three Times a Day
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SUM([value]) and highest record type
Given a record mapping table: Id Initial Updated 1 1 2 2 3 4...
should i expect data types in task->export data from ssms?
Hi i recently exported a number of "to be purged resultsets " to .tsv's. ...
Question of the Day
Multiple Defaults
In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.OrderHeader ADD ModifiedStamp DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE() GOI decide I need to add auditing to another table and run this:
ALTER TABLE dbo.Tracker ADD Created DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE() GOWhat happens with these statements? See possible answers