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Security is very much on our minds these days. Scarcely a day goes by without hearing of a yet another...
2017-12-06 (first published: 2017-11-27)
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The Monday Morning DBA
File This Under File Groups (Part 1)
I never had cause to give much consideration to storage when I was a SQL developer. The companies I worked...
2017-11-19
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Spaced-Out Strings
I came across this in a code review not long ago:
Three things pop into my head when I see this...
2017-11-27 (first published: 2017-11-13)
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A View On Views
In my experience, there are few database objects more poorly understood, misunderstood, misused, and outright abused, than the humble view....
2017-11-16 (first published: 2017-11-05)
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It’s All About The Joins
One of the most common mistakes I see made when creating tables (and I’ve been guilty of this myself too...
2017-10-29
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Welcome to The Monday Morning DBA
I started my IT career twenty years ago as a VB and C developer, wandered into C++ for a bit,...
2017-09-30
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Blogs
Running SQL Server on KubeVirt – Getting Started
With all the changes that have happened with VMware since the Broadcom acquisition I...
Why is shrinking IT budgets a good thing?
Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many,...
Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
By Steve Jones
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting,...
Forums
Best analysis approach to reduce data type length in multiple tables
Hello SSC, I hope everyone is having a happy and safe holiday season! I...
Do you separate data/log files and TempDB files on different disks using AWS EC2
Hello, I am receiving multiple direction on deploying SQL Servers in AWS EC2. ...
Service account being in local admin in AWS EC2 environment?
Hello, I am working with a company on their database administration. I am trying...
Question of the Day
A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
SELECT '1' || '0'See possible answers