Use The Correct Data Type
Blog post #5 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel. Read about it here.
Saying that you should use the...
2016-05-18 (first published: 2016-05-12)
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The Scary DBA
Implicit Conversion and Performance
Letting SQL Server change data types automatically can seriously impact performance in a negative way. Because a calculation has to be run...
2016-05-03
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How to Convince the Boss to Send You to PASS Summit
August two years ago I originally posted, Make the PASS Summit Work for Your Employer. After conversations at several SQL...
2016-05-02
973 reads
Customizing Your Azure Portal
Not all of us are going to use Azure in the same way. That’s just common sense. Therefore, not all...
2016-04-27
1,835 reads
Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure
For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...
2016-04-21
525 reads
Payment and the Board
If you read the March PASS Board meeting minutes, you saw that there was a discussion around board members and...
2016-04-20
483 reads
A View Is Not A Table
Blog post #4 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel
In SQL Server, in the T-SQL you use to query...
2016-04-19 (first published: 2016-04-12)
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Views and Simplification
I’ve been getting lots of questions on views lately. Must be something in the water.
Because SQL Server allows you to...
2016-04-05
549 reads
Speaker of the Month: April 2016
THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL POST!
Seriously.
My Speaker of the Month for April 2016 is Keith Tate (b|t) and his...
2016-04-01
492 reads
Do You Teach Azure Data Platform?
I offer instruction on the Azure Data Platform, and have for about six years, since shortly after it came out....
2016-03-29
813 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
how to write this query?
Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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