I’m back! I’m still a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. And other minor life updates.
I stopped blogging late last year. I’ll be honest, I was tired. I had decided to take a month or ... Continue reading
2023-07-27
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I stopped blogging late last year. I’ll be honest, I was tired. I had decided to take a month or ... Continue reading
2023-07-27
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The defaults for saving SQL Agent Job history are ok (at best), so you should probably check and update them ... Continue reading
2023-08-09 (first published: 2023-07-25)
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A while back I talked about the fact that you can grant someone CREATE PROCEDURE and ALTER on a schema ... Continue reading
2023-07-20
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One of the wonderful things about blogging is the ability to make notes for future me. Which is basically what ... Continue reading
2023-08-02 (first published: 2023-07-18)
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I was having a conversation with some friends the other day and Jen McCown (blog|twitter) asked about SQL Server security ... Continue reading
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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It’s been a while, but I’m finally participating in T-SQL Tuesday again! This month Erik Darling (blog|twitter) is hosting. Ever ... Continue reading
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! And Garry Bargsley (blog|twitter) has asked us what we have planned for the end of the ... Continue reading
2022-12-15 (first published: 2022-12-13)
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One of my favorite parts of having a new job is that I learn a ton. (No really, my brain ... Continue reading
2022-12-08
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I was given 4.5 months notice this past June and was fortunate to find a new job. I blogged about ... Continue reading
2022-12-06
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SQL Server 2022 has been released! Long live SQL Server! No really, I’ve still got a while before retirement. I ... Continue reading
2022-12-19 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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By Steve Jones
Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes...
pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database...
By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
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Can I have a collation expression like this in SQL Server 2022?
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