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MVP Status: Renewed

On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they...

2018-07-10

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Blog Post

MVP Status: Renewed

On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...

2018-07-10

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Blog Post

MVP Status: Renewed

On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...

2018-07-10

4 reads

Blog Post

MVP Status: Renewed

On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...

2018-07-10

Blog Post

MVP Status: Renewed

On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...

2018-07-10

Blog Post

10 Years Young

It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the...

2018-06-12

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Blog Post

10 Years Young

It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...

2018-06-12

8 reads

Blog Post

10 Years Young

It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...

2018-06-12

3 reads

Blog Post

10 Years Young

It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...

2018-06-12

1 reads

Blog Post

10 Years Young

It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...

2018-06-12

1 reads

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Speaking at the 2025 PASS Data Community Summit

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I will be back in Seattle this year attending the 2025 PASS Data Community...

The Book of Redgate: Motivation

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Another of our values is this: Motivation isn’t about carrots and sticks. Constant oversight...

A Six Week Break

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Today is my last day of work for six weeks. I start my sabbatical...

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SUM([value]) and highest record type

By Pete Bishop

Given a record mapping table: Id Initial Updated 1 1 2 2 3 4...

should i expect data types in task->export data from ssms?

By stan

Hi i recently exported a number of "to be purged resultsets " to .tsv's. ...

Migrating Temporal/systemversioned Tables

By bernaerts_joris

Hello, for my client i have to do regular refreshes of production to dev....

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Question of the Day

Multiple Defaults

In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this code:

ALTER TABLE dbo.OrderHeader 
ADD ModifiedStamp DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE()
GO
I decide I need to add auditing to another table and run this:
ALTER TABLE dbo.Tracker
ADD Created DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE()
GO
What happens with these statements?

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