T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026. If you’d like to reply, your response should go live on November 10th, 2026. All...
2026-11-03
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Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026. If you’d like to reply, your response should go live on November 10th, 2026. All...
2026-11-03
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AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but it’s a poor way to give a team a read-only advisor. The obvious fix is...
2026-11-02
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I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that often. Mainly I do some SQL Server or Azure SQL experimentation. Sometimes I might create...
2026-11-11 (first published: 2026-11-02)
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This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes and configure it to use the systemd cgroup driver. The commands below were tested on...
2026-11-11 (first published: 2026-11-01)
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In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows application that could log off or shut down Windows in multiple ways. It was successful...
2026-10-30
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This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen posted about cars during the last month. These are a few headlines, as well as...
2026-10-30
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SQL Server 2016 Has Reached End of Support. Now What?
On July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 reached the end of extended support. That means regular...
2026-11-09 (first published: 2026-10-30)
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(This post starts a three-part series on how AI is changing the way we build solutions in Microsoft Fabric. First, we’ll explore how the new unified Copilot in Fabric...
2026-11-04 (first published: 2026-10-29)
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I built a free library of runnable SQL Server demos. Each reproduces a real production problem on purpose, measures the fixes, and checks its own predictions on SQL Server...
2026-11-09 (first published: 2026-10-29)
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I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server Central. I realized there isn’t a documentation note on how many parameters can be included....
2026-11-06 (first published: 2026-10-28)
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By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers