Work Habits
I enjoy woodworking as a hobby and as I try new things I find that my work habits during the...
2009-08-31
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Blogs
Beware the REPLACE function when doing heavy string parsing
I found something interesting the other day. I was attempting to optimize a very heavy string parsing routine using T-SQL and was having problems. I don’t normally use T-SQL for such heavy string parsing, but this was a special case of a legacy structure that I had to work with, so I had no choice.
2009-08-27
5,504 reads
There is no excuse
I read Jack Corbett's blog entry,No Training Budget Still No Excuse, last week and thought it was excellent. In fact,...
2009-08-21
1,956 reads
How Much Should You Post Online About Your Life?
I’ve touched on it some in the past, but it’s a question that comes up a lot when we discuss...
2009-08-21
2,360 reads
I/O I/O - It's why my server's slow.....Examing I\O Statistics
I/O I/O - It's why my server's slow.....
Often I've been curious about ways to measure the performance of SQL Server, and...
2009-08-20
4,229 reads
Replication – Accommodating Application Inserts
Recently I have been involved in lots of projects involving replication. I have done some things to make replication work...
2009-08-19
1,759 reads
Evil Code
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A couple
of years ago, when I wrote the Simple-Talk Prettifier that is really no more than a stored
procedure...
2009-08-18
2,619 reads
The Joy of Data Modelling.
You may think that the task of teasing out the exact nature
of the data and processes within a company...
2009-08-17
2,916 reads
Writing Technical Content for PASS
We’ve just posted our core guidelines for technical content on sqlpass.org. The short story is there are three main ways...
2009-08-17
976 reads
Adding Multiple Columns to a Table With a Single T-SQL Statement
You know, I believe the old saying, “If you don’t use it you will lose it”. Well, I write a...
2009-08-13
38,455 reads
Blogs
Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
By Steve Jones
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No...
Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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Are things getting beyond reason?
My wife apparently ask her phone a question and below is what she sent...
I Love Editorials
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Question of the Day
A Common Split
What happens when I run this code:
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(1000) = 'apple, pear, peach' SELECT * FROM STRING_SPLIT(@s, ', ')See possible answers