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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One interesting concept in SQL Server is Deferred Name Resolution. This is something many developers struggle with understanding how this works and where it works. In the Microsoft docs,...
2025-03-10 (first published: 2025-03-03)
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I grabbed this book over the 2024 holiday season as it was on sale and recommended by the DevOps practitioners over at ITRevolution. A Radical Enterprise looks at a...
2025-03-14 (first published: 2025-02-28)
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Investing small amounts of money over a long time works miracles, but no one wants to get rich slow. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is incredible advice,...
2025-02-28
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In a week I’m heading to London for the Redgate Summit. I enjoyed these last year and had some very interesting conversations with customers, prospects, and a few Redgate...
2025-02-28
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This is my (late) answer to my own invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #183. I was very busy a few weeks ago when the invite when out (glad it was...
2025-03-07 (first published: 2025-02-26)
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A recent change made to Redgate Monitor to add a new alert for VLF count. This post looks at the change. This is part of a series of posts...
2025-03-03 (first published: 2025-02-24)
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tangency– n. a fleeting glimpse of what might have been. I tend to live in the real world as it is, not too dreamy or wishful that things were...
2025-02-21
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I needed to back up a PostgreSQL database as a part of the repro for an issue I had. I hadn’t ever made a backup of PostgreSQL, so this...
2025-02-19
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I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions. I didn’t get my own post completed in time, but I’ll add it in the...
2025-02-28 (first published: 2025-02-18)
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By Steve Jones
Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes...
pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database...
By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
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Hello SSC, Happy Friday! I have to optimize a process that uses dynamic SQL...
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Can I have a collation expression like this in SQL Server 2022?
... WHERE ColumnA = ( 'abc' COLLATE French_CI_AS) COLLATE French_CS_AS ...See possible answers