My SQLSat54 Experience
In case you hadn’t heard SQLSaturday #54 was Oct 23 in Salt Lake City. It was a dreary opening to...
2010-10-25
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SQL RNNR
A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale
Time for the ghouls and goblins to come out of the woodwork once again for another tale of deception and...
2010-10-12
1,425 reads
A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale
If you truncate a table, you cannot undo the action like you can with a delete. What is the difference between the two methods to remove data from a...
2010-10-12
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October 2010 TSQL Tuesday Reminder
Holy Cow, another month has flown by without much of a hint. We now have upon us another TSQL Tuesday....
2010-10-07
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It’s Implied
This has been on my radar now for a little over a week. I ran across a request in the...
2010-10-05
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The Year of the Phantom
It is amazing how fast time moves the older (and slower) we as humans get. Looking back on time, it...
2010-10-03
624 reads
Red Pyramid
After having read the Percy Jackson series of books, I wanted to read a few more books by Rick Riordan....
2010-10-02
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SQLSat 54
Wow, I have really been kinda slow in the blog department for a couple of weeks now. I have a...
2010-10-01
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TSQL Tuesday Indexes and Blobs
Woohoo – chugga chugga chugga chugga – woo woo. The train is pulling into town once again for another installment in the...
2010-09-15
1,749 reads
September TSQL Tuesday
It is hard to believe that time is flying like it is. Already it has been a month since I...
2010-09-08
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
Forums
non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers