After spending decades working in SQL Server, getting familiar with PostgreSQL felt like traveling to a country where everyone speaks a language I mostly understand – but with a different accent...
2025-06-25 (first published: 2025-06-11)
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What is Concurrency in Databases? Concurrency control ensures that multiple transactions can occur simultaneously without leading to data inconsistency. Two popular concurrency control mechanisms are: MVCC in PostgreSQL PostgreSQL...
2025-06-25 (first published: 2025-06-11)
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I’m presenting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 6PM UTC (8PM CET or 2PM EDT). The abstract: As you might learn from the abstract,...
2025-06-11
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This month we have a great invite from Joe Fleming, a first time host of T-SQL Tuesday. Joe reached out when I requested some hosts and I’m glad he...
2025-06-10
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Joe Fleming wants to know how I solve weird problems. I’m not sure I’m actually qualified to answer this question since I, myself, am a weird problem, but I’ll...
2025-06-30 (first published: 2025-06-10)
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I didn't have these in my slides for the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference, but brought them up the web browser during the presentation. If you're looking at...
2025-06-27 (first published: 2025-06-09)
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I have a proper blog post coming out tomorrow for T-SQL Tuesday, but today, celebrate with me that SSMS 21 finally, at long last, fixes the irritating fact that...
2025-06-23 (first published: 2025-06-09)
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One of the biggest challenges with monitoring data is managing the volume over time. Lots of bespoke/home-grown solutions don’t do this well, and some commercial products have a gross...
2025-06-09
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Build a Dockerized Todo List RESTful API in C# with GitHub Actions and Azure Container App: A Step-by-Step GuideBuilding scalable, portable, and easy-to-maintain applications has become necessary in today's...
2025-06-08
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Erin West gave the keynote for the 2025 Techno Security & Digital Forensics East conference on cyber scams. How bad is it? Well, according to the Internet Crime Complaint...
2025-06-20 (first published: 2025-06-06)
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When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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