My SQL Server Management Studio Setup
We’re all creatures of habit, and work more efficiently when we know exactly where to find the tools we need....
2017-12-18
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Tim Mitchell
Some Thoughts on Community, Leadership, and Continuous Improvement
The SQL Server community is just awesome. I can’t say that enough. I may sound like a broken record when...
2017-12-17
371 reads
The Value of Shortcuts
Decades ago when I was working as a retail clerk, I had a boss named Billy. Billy was a pragmatic...
2017-12-16
414 reads
To Learn, Teach
Back before I started doing technical presentations or writing blog posts, I frequently found myself in awe at those who...
2017-12-15
601 reads
Picking The Right Team
Years ago, back before I became a consultant, a job search led me to an interview with a technical company....
2017-12-14
412 reads
The Value of Consistent Design
Yesterday I wrote about best practices, illustrating that what may be an assumed technical design standard doesn’t fit every scenario....
2017-12-13
398 reads
When Best Practices Aren’t Best
Most everyone is familiar with the term best practices. This phrase describes an industry-specific design or methodology that can be...
2017-12-12
389 reads
The Eleven Days of Festivus 2017
Last year, I celebrated the holiday season by blogging daily during the 11 days leading up to Festivus, writing about...
2017-12-12
316 reads
The One Piece of Career Advice I Wish I’d Gotten
Over the years, I’ve been approached numerous times with requests for advice from folks who are looking to get started...
2017-12-12 (first published: 2017-11-29)
2,520 reads
Long Live OLE DB!
Back in August of 2011, an announcement from Microsoft started a wave of angst among those who build and support...
2017-11-20
357 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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