My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)
A while back I wrote about how to find where your backups are. And I’ve also written about I use...
2018-12-10 (first published: 2018-11-26)
2,080 reads
SQLStudies
The Cloud and Shadow IT.
Shadow IT has been, well, maybe not the bane of the IT department, but certainly a pain in the neck....
2018-11-21
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Dealing with multiple AD accounts
To help promote the seperation of duties one of the things my company has done is to divide our permissions...
2018-11-29 (first published: 2018-11-19)
2,391 reads
Parameterized dynamic SQL is parameterized.
Ok, that title sounds silly, but it’s actually a real point. The first parameterized refers to using parameters within dynamic...
2018-11-23 (first published: 2018-11-15)
2,530 reads
T-shaped knowledge and learning about the cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #108
Upper management at my company has started asking for something called T-Shaped knowledge. The idea is that we have a...
2018-11-13
227 reads
Missing those we’ve lost
It’s the start of Summit for many of us (not me, sorry) and it seemed like a good time to...
2018-11-07
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SQL Homework – November 2018 – Constraints
You’ve created tables before but how about constraints? Constraints allow a finer level of control over what data is allowed...
2018-11-14 (first published: 2018-11-05)
1,939 reads
Zombie SQL
It Halloween so time for a scary SQL story. Ok, maybe not that scary. Ok, not scary at all, but...
2018-11-12 (first published: 2018-10-31)
2,898 reads
Blogger Questions: What if I get a mean/rude comment?
There is a fear that almost every blogger has to overcome. I’ll be honest, it pops up almost every time...
2018-10-29
317 reads
I’m in a book! Data Professionals at Work
A while back a friend of mine, Malathi Mahadevan (b/t), asked me if I’d like to do an interview for...
2018-10-24
226 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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