How are you recharging this year?
Steve Jones asks about your plans to get away from work and refresh yourself.
2018-06-29
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Editorial
String or binary data would be truncated
This is an error that has plagued SQL Server for a long time. It should be fixed.
2018-06-28
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2018-06-25
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2018-06-21
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Providing Feedback to Speakers
One of the greatest things that has arisen in the past 10 years or so is a veritable stream of great conferences for people to learn how to write better software, many of them low cost or even free. In the Data Platform community, we have had nearly 800 free SQL Saturday events around the […]
2018-06-18
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More Query Tuning?
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
2018-06-15
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Building Test Data
Steve talks about the importance of test data and how to get it in development environments.
2018-06-14
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2018-06-13
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Machine Learning in the Database
Steve talks about Machine Learning Services in SQL Server and whether using this is a good idea.
2018-06-12
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Be Prepared with Baselines
Analyzing performance often requires you to understand what is normal and what is not. Steve talks about the importance of baselines.
2018-06-11
65 reads
Blogs
SQL Training Black Friday Deals
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If you're looking for particular "Black Friday" deals, here is what I've seen advertised...
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
By SQLPals
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files? xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a...
Happy Thanksgiving! (USA Holiday)
By Brian Kelley
In the United States, today is Thanksgiving. The intent behind the holiday is to...
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Which Object Definitions Are Available?
For which of these object types can I get the code when I run the OBJECT_DEFINITION() function in SQL Server 2025? (choose 3)
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