A New Word: Bye-over
bye-over – n. the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional farewell but then unexpectedly have a little extra time together, wordlessly agreeing to pretend that...
2024-11-01
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Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions
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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Counting Groups with Window Functions: #SQLNewBlogger
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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The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan – When You’ve Managed to Confuse SQL With a Crazy IN Clause.
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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Extending a SQL Server Failover Cluster Across Regions in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
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)
211 reads
Heading to 2024 PASS Summit
I am able to head back to Seattle for the PASS Summit this year. I would love to meet up with friends and colleagues. I shouldn’t be too hard...
2024-10-29
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Tell me the positives of your solution
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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Monday Monitor Tips: Projecting Disk Space
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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SQL from A to Z: Your Path to SQL Mastery this Fall
I'm excited to tell you about the "SQL from A to Z" learning track. This comprehensive program will take you from SQL newbie to pro in no time. It's...
2024-10-28
48 reads
Introduction to Advanced Analytics
The post Introduction to Advanced Analytics appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-11-06 (first published: 2024-10-27)
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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