If you’ve ever had to format dates and times in SQL, you’ve probably come across one of the most jarring realities of working across platforms: every major RDBMS does it differently and sometimes confusingly. What’s a TO_CHAR() in Oracle becomes FORMAT() or CONVERT() in SQL Server, and its sort of the same in PostgreSQL… but […]
2025-07-11
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2025-08-15 (first published: 2025-06-12)
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When you create something, do you think about the future? Steve asks the question today.
2025-01-29
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2025-01-17
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There are a number of ways to run SQL Server for free (or low cost) for development. Read a bit about how to do this.
2024-02-23
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One of the slowest parts of any application is data retrieval and in this article, we look at how to cache SQL Server data for a web application.
2023-05-22
When I first started work as a software developer, I knew that getting an environment set up where I could compile a project might take a few hours or a few days. The complexities of how people built software projects, the dependencies, and more were handled in a very immature manner. These days I can […]
2022-11-16
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Steve notes that there are differences between state based development and migration based development, but neither is necessarily better.
2021-10-06
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2020-11-13
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The challenges of state in databases can impact our development efforts.
2020-08-31
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By Brian Kelley
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...
By DataOnWheels
I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...
By Steve Jones
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of...
All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...
I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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