A New Word: Ochisia
ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life could be refilled without a second thought, which makes you wish that every breakup would...
2024-11-15
17 reads
The Voice of the DBA
Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here: Youtube Spotify Watch and check this out. This is especially close to my heart as...
2024-11-12
43 reads
Monday Monitor Tips: Tracking The Cost of Instances
One of the things that I’ve been asked in every operations situation is what licenses do we need for our servers. This is a rare request, often once a...
2024-11-25 (first published: 2024-11-11)
431 reads
PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Day 3 Keynote
It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired, as are many others. The blogging table is a little bare this am, but I...
2024-11-20 (first published: 2024-11-08)
153 reads
A New Word: Skidding
skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt. I used to make lots of sarcastic comments. Some...
2024-11-08
21 reads
Day 2 at PASS Data Community Summit 2024
I missed blogging yesterday as I was on stage/backstage for quite a bit of the keynote. Live updates, so keep refreshing. Today I’m blogging and noting the interesting things...
2024-11-18 (first published: 2024-11-07)
163 reads
Off to the PASS Data Community Summit 2024
As this publishes, I’ll get taxiing down the runway at DIA (fingers crossed) and flying to Seattle for the PASS Data Community Summit 2024. I’m very lucky that I...
2024-11-04
12 reads
2024 PASS Data Community Summit Prep
Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling Monday to the event to see a few thousand fellow data professionals, developers, managers, and...
2024-11-01
24 reads
A New Word: Bye-over
bye-over – n. the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional farewell but then unexpectedly have a little extra time together, wordlessly agreeing to pretend that...
2024-11-01
104 reads
Counting Groups with Window Functions: #SQLNewBlogger
I looked at row_number() in a previous post. Now I want to build on that and do some counting of rows with COUNT() and the OVER clause. I’ll show...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2024-10-30)
465 reads
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
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...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Transactional Replication from...
Hidden Heroes
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Hidden Heroes
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?
See possible answers