EightKB August 2022

EightkB is back! Today we announced the schedule for the next EightKB, which is happening at 1pm UTC on the 3rd of August. We have five more amazing, mind-melting...

Register as a Pre-Con Speaker

I’ve been debating how we better organize speaker resources and one of the things I proposed was a pre-con registry of speakers. I did so at the sqlsaturday blog....

Daily Coping 13 Jul 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Snowflake Editions

You have decided that snowflake is the technology you want to use to build your next gen data platform, you have decided your cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP) then...

T-SQL Tuesday 152: An ORM Will Not Save You From Yourself

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Deborah Melkin (blog | twitter) asks us for a database-related rant.

I...

T-SQL Tuesday #152 – The crazy login client

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Deborah Melkin(b|t), and she has an interesting topic. She wants us to write a rant on a scenario we encountered at a...

Transactional Replication: Where did my data go???

Good morning dear reader. Today I am writing this blog while sitting at a trampoline park.  My six-year-old son loves this place, and we tend to find ourselves here...

T-SQL Tuesday #152 – It Depends – Manager’s Access

Deb Melkin (b | t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and is letting us rant. Who doesn’t like to rant about databases and the famous “it depends”. She...

Thank You Allen!

I know I can say that I’m a friend of Allen White without getting into trouble. Allen and I have a shared a lot of things over the years...

SQL Server Partitioning for Performance

Often enough I get questions regarding partitioning to try to help alleviate performance issues with very large tables. A common misconception is that due to the table being large,...