T-SQL Tuesday Live–A Neat Solution
Travel is limited, or banned, in many cases these days. Events are cancelled or postponed, and there is a limit to how much contact we should have with each...
2020-03-23
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The Voice of the DBA
Daily Coping–23 Mar 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-03-23
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Save the Dates for Redgate Streamed
We’ve got three days of online content coming your way from Redgate on Apr 1-3. There is a great lineup, and you can register for each day here: Wed,...
2020-03-27 (first published: 2020-03-20)
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Learning some DAX
I’ve not done much BI work in my career, other than simple aggregates in reports. I’ve wanted to tackle projects, but I’ve rarely had a chance to spend time...
2020-03-16
218 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #124–Query Store in Action
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #124 and I’m dropping a quick post as I’ve had lots of other stuff to do since returning from my sabbatical. Tracy Boggiano is the...
2020-03-10
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Women’s History Month and Being Better
This month is Women’s History Month, and it’s a chance to stop and think about the impact that women have had in history. After reading Monica Rathbun’s post on...
2020-03-13 (first published: 2020-03-03)
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Setting 2020 Learning Goals
I deliberately didn’t set any goals at the start of 2020 since I was taking six weeks off for a sabbatical. That’s done, and it’s time to look forward....
2020-03-06 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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Reviewing 2019 Career Goals
According to this post, I rate 2019 as a Failure. Of the books I planned to read, I read 2. I started 2 others, but they’re in progress, even...
2020-02-28
168 reads
Schema Filtering in SQL Prompt
I love SQL Prompt, and I’m regularly impressed by the enhancements our teams continue to make in the product. One item that I found interesting recently was schema filtering....
2020-03-04 (first published: 2020-02-27)
255 reads
The Cost of SQL Bits v the PASS Summit
UPDATE: This post originally priced Charlotte, NC, but the Summit is in Houston, TX. I have corrected costs and locations. The difference is about $300 less for a flight...
2020-01-22 (first published: 2020-01-13)
446 reads
Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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