SQLSaturday Finally Has a Logo
Sometimes its the little things that seem to take forever! We've had a text only logo up for a while,...
2007-10-31
1,441 reads
SQLAndy
Nominations INETA North America Board of Directors
Picked this up from the local Net group here in Orlando. INETA is actually pretty helpful when it comes to...
2007-10-31
1,415 reads
If Exists (Select 1...) vs If Exists (select * ...)
If exists is a well known way to improve performance because it returns as soon as it matches a single...
2007-10-30
1,956 reads
How Much Pizza and Soda for a User Group Meeting (Why You Should RSVP)?
After a few meetings of oPASS this year the numbers I use are 2 slices of pizza and 2 drinks...
2007-10-29
1,448 reads
Views for Abstraction Posted on SSC
This went up today and there is one great comment about possibly using snapshot isolation as an alternative to the...
2007-10-25
1,353 reads
Steve Jones Finally Reads My Blog!
I've been following Steve's exploits trying to learn the podcasting business and we usually talk about it once a week...
2007-10-25
1,460 reads
SQLSaturday Finally Listed in PASS Connector
If you subscribe to the Connector (the main communication email from PASS.org) you should have gotten one yesterday that finally...
2007-10-25
1,398 reads
Untitled Pages in ASPX
If you do any coding in .Net using aspx pages you'll recognize this one. Each page has a title attribute...
2007-10-24
1,472 reads
Requiring Columns Over 900 Bytes to Be Unique
Had a friend call me recently to ask about how to do this, had an nvarchar(2000) column that needed to...
2007-10-22
1,450 reads
If Exists (Select 1...) vs If Exists (select * ...)
If exists is a well known way to improve performance because it returns as soon as it matches a single...
2007-10-21
1,835 reads
Blogs
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
Forums
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Having a Little Fun at...
Designing SQL Server Pipelines That Are Ready for AI Before You Actually Need AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Designing SQL Server Pipelines That...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers