The SQL Server Security Model, Part 1: Logins [Foundations Friday]
How secure are your databases?
No, not your network. Just your databases. If your company is like most, the strongest security...
2016-01-22
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The Data Files
Foundations Friday starts now
Earlier this month, my friend Tim Ford (b|t) proposed an idea:
A 2016 challenge to technical bloggers: 1 introductory level blog...
2016-01-21
443 reads
New Year, New Look, New Focus
Happy New Year, and welcome back! One of the projects I undertook over the holidays was to give the site...
2016-01-12
281 reads
[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-23 (first published: 2015-11-17)
2,133 reads
[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-17
411 reads
[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-17
396 reads
SQLNewBlogger, Week 3
I have a confession to make: I haven’t been writing much this week.
Last weekend, I didn’t feel well and didn’t...
2015-11-15
325 reads
SQLNewBlogger, Week 3
I have a confession to make: I haven’t been writing much this week.
Last weekend, I didn’t feel well and didn’t...
2015-11-15
216 reads
SQLNewBlogger, Week 3
I have a confession to make: I haven’t been writing much this week.
Last weekend, I didn’t feel well and didn’t...
2015-11-15
222 reads
SQL New Blogger Challenge: Week 1 recap
Thanks to everyone who participated in week 1 of the SQL New Blogger Challenge! Eight posts were written this week...
2015-11-07
423 reads
Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
ROLLUP to calculate Month total for all Categories
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers