Hubbard Family Recovery–A Friend
Today’s post will not be your regular tech or leadership blog from me today. The Hubbard family suffered a tragic loss on January 12th, 2022. They lost their home,...
2022-01-14
12 reads
The SQL Professor
The Power of User Groups
Fascination has always been with me when thinking of developing local talent. It has helped me immensely in my career both as an attendee, presenter, chapter leader, and more....
2021-08-23
82 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #141 Work/Life Balance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by TJay Belt (@tjaybelt). I find this month’s topic, balancing work and life, intriguing, and after a hiatus of non-blogging, I’m happy that...
2021-08-10
20 reads
Friend of RedGate 2021
This past month RedGate graciously allowed me to be a part of their Friend of RedGate program. It’s been a great seven year run with this program and I...
2021-02-11
13 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #135: The outstanding tools of the trade that make your job awesome
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on a T-SQL Tuesday topic and glad to see the topic being discussed by Mike Bronowski (blog) on tools. Throughout my career,...
2021-02-09
150 reads
Release Your Inner Synapse
I don’t know about you, but as Microsoft has produced the Azure Synapse platform, I see a plethora of needs that could be fulfilled by it. Being in a...
2021-02-12 (first published: 2021-02-08)
329 reads
Friend of Redgate 2020
Last week I was excited to receive an email from Redgate notifying me that I have been renewed for another year as a Friend of Redgate. Our shop has...
2020-02-18
17 reads
Why I’m Running For The PASS Board – Again
Hello, it’s amazing to me how fast the past couple of years have gone by as I’ve served on the PASS Board. It has been a journey that has...
2019-11-02
13 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #119 – Changing Your Mind
This month Alex Yates (B|T) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday which is a monthly blog party started by Adam Machanic (B|T) and co-ordinated by Steve Jones (B|T) The challenge that...
2019-10-08
75 reads
Friend of Redgate 2019
The crew at Redgate has deemed me worthy enough to be in their Friend of Redgate program for another year....
2019-02-12
99 reads
Blogs
Delta Lake over Spark Connect
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts I have just finished an update for the spark connect dotnet...
Generating Random Strings with GenAI
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been experimenting with in AI is taking things other...
Heading to SQL Bits 2025
By Steve Jones
I’ll be at SQL Bits tomorrow, Saturday Jun 20, 2025 for the final day...
Forums
Merge techniques
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant value...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
XML_COMPRESSION for existing tables
We are in the process of upgrading to SQL Server 2022 and would like...
Question of the Day
Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers