The Mentoring Experiment – Cycle 2
It’s been a long time, almost a year since Andy Warren and I kicked off The Mentoring Experiment. We had...
2012-04-26
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AlwaysOn Failover Bug
I just found a little bug in AlwaysOn. It’s actually not that big a deal, but it’s interesting. In a...
2012-04-26
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See you at SQL Saturday 130 Jacksonville!
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Hello Dear Reader, this Saturday April 28th is SQL Saturday 130 in Jacksonville FL! The good people from the Jacksonville...
2012-04-26
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Beer, Cheese and SQL Saturday 118 Madison
This past weekend I (w|t) headed up to Madison, WI to attend and present at SQL Saturday 118. The MADPASS...
2012-04-26
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Offset without OFFSET
A while ago Robert Cary posted an article on SQL Server Central entitled 2005 Paging – The Holy Grail which is,...
2012-04-26
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Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Options
Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Options
Of course, your architecture depends on your business requirements along with technical, historical, and political factors....
2012-04-25
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Creating a Symmetric Key in SQL Server
Symmetric keys in SQL Server are recommended for encrypting data in columns. They are a good balance of security and...
2012-04-25
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2012 (2011) Data Breach Report
I had a chance over the weekend to finish reading the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. It’s a compilation...
2012-04-25
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SQL Azure Federation
What is Federation?
Federation is a database object like other objects such as tables, views, stored procedures or triggers.
It is also known as Sharding.
There can be multiple federations in a database.
It is...
2012-04-25
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Identity Crisis
I’m sure most people have identity values lurking somewhere in their databases. In fact I would guess that most people...
2012-05-02 (first published: 2012-04-25)
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Blogs
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
The first version of my accounting assistant could not find a single purchase of...
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
Why isn’t AI paying off yet? Drawing on lessons from digital transformation, Joyful Craftsmen...
Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
By Steve Jones
I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers