I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks at how the proc works. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves...
2026-05-08 (first published: 2026-04-22)
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After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the various industries, I am placing a bet: agents will become the default interface for most...
2026-04-22
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Beware of Generic SQL Server License Keys (What to Use Instead)
I (think) realize that content here is probably more applicable to mid-to-large organizations than small...
2026-05-01 (first published: 2026-04-22)
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There seems to be a school of thought in the tech community that a robust knowledge SQL is now optional. After all, with modern AI tools able to generate...
2026-04-22
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Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to speak. Though Professor Winston is no longer with us, his talk still is. If you...
2026-05-01 (first published: 2026-04-20)
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One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add custom mertics for various purposes. This has been popular, and along with our curated list...
2026-05-04 (first published: 2026-04-20)
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In my planned failover walkthrough, I showed what happens when you deliberately move the primary role to another replica. That’s the easy case. Now I want to show what...
2026-04-19
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Howdy folks! Long time no write.
In this post, I will be answering a couple of questions from the previous posts about dropping columns.
A quick refresh
If you haven’t read the...
2026-04-19
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When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned and unplanned failovers. The easy case is a planned failover, where you deliberately move the...
2026-04-20 (first published: 2026-04-19)
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I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one of my favorite rabbit holes is revisiting Paul Randal’s series on file header pages. If...
2026-04-18
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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