A Very Simple Blocking Alert
Blocking in SQL Server can be good – after all, it’s one of the ways consistency is guaranteed – we usually don’t want data written to by two processes...
2021-05-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #138
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy Leonard who has poised the question ‘What do you do when technology changes underneath you?’ I was going to begin by...
2021-05-11
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What do you do when technology changes underneath you? (T-SQL Tuesday #138)
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy Leonard who has poised the question ‘What do you do when technology changes underneath you?’ I was going to begin by...
2021-05-11
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SSIS – Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to datatype int
I recently encountered a SSIS package that was failing due to an ‘arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to datatype int’; Conversion/overflow errors aren’t that unusual – normally a data...
2021-04-06
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Serverless Azure SQL DB can show incorrect data space usage in the Portal
A quick PSA on the behaviour of Serverless Azure SQL DB space reporting in the Azure Portal. I recently had to shrink a large Azure SQL DB for cost...
2021-03-31
31 reads
Getting SQL Services Information with Powershell
Hopefully you already know everything about your SQL estate, including what services are installed and what’s running them, either because it’s so small you just know, or, preferably, you...
2021-03-15
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Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
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XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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