Monday Monitor Tips: Looking Back in Time
Often we find out about a problem reported by a customer after the incident has passed. This might be from a trouble ticket or even an email that we...
2025-03-24
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Friday Flyway Tips: State-based deployment with Flyway Teams
I was asked about state-based deployments in Flyway Teams, so I decided to show how this can work with a quick demo. This post walks through the process. I’ve...
2025-03-21
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Advice I Like: The Main Thing
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – from Excellent Advice for Living We can summarize this advice as focus on what’s important. I...
2025-03-21
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DATEADD Truncates the Number Parameter: #SQLNewBlogger
This was an interesting thing I saw in a Question of the Day submission. I hadn’t thought about the issue, but apparently DATEADD truncates values rather than rounding them....
2025-03-19
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Can an AI Help Me Find a Job?
I’m not looking for a job, but I ran across an article about using AI tools for a job search. So I decided to try it out. I followed...
2025-03-18 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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The Book of Redgate: What’s Great about Redgate?
“I’m sick of hearing about Red Gate.” The first article in the book has this title, which might seem strange, but the short piece then talks about how many...
2025-03-14
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Tally Table Alternatives: #SQLNewBlogger
We published an article recently at SQL Server Central on Tally Tables in Fabric from John Miner. In it he showed how this can be efficient. A day after...
2025-03-21 (first published: 2025-03-12)
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T-SQL Tuesday #184–Mentoring
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Deborah Melkin, and it’s a good one that asks us where we are making the world better. The topic is...
2025-03-11
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A New Word: Waldosia
waldosia– n. a condition in which you keep scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, as if your...
2025-03-07
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A Couple Quick GENERATE_SERIES Tests
I had someone reach out about generate_series() recently, saying they hadn’t realized this was a new feature in SQL Server 2022. They were wondering if it was better than...
2025-03-17 (first published: 2025-03-05)
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The trade-offs associated with low-code solutions
Low-code solutions often accelerate development and make tasks accessible to people who can’t or...
Monday Monitor Tips: Looking Back in Time
By Steve Jones
Often we find out about a problem reported by a customer after the incident...
Can You Tell Why a Plan Didn’t Go Parallel?
Let’s face it, most of the time, you probably don’t want your SQL Server...
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Is there a way to determine an Azure Data Factory Trigger's "next run time"?
Many job schedulers (e.g., SQL Agent, Airflow, Azure Logic Apps) can report when a...
The Table Backup
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Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using Python
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The Table Backup
I run this code in SQL Server 2022. What happens?
BACKUP TABLE beercount TO DISK = 'beercount.bak'See possible answers