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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Editorials
When Work Gets in the Way of Work
Work sometimes gets in the way of work. Steve Jones notes this can cause stress and problems over time.
2018-06-27 (first published: 2014-10-21)
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2018-06-26 (first published: 2015-04-14)
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2018-06-25 (first published: 2015-02-13)
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2018-06-25
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Common Mistakes
This week Steve Jones is wondering what the common mistakes that T-SQL developers make are.
2018-06-22 (first published: 2015-03-20)
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2018-06-21
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Release Wednesday
One of the teams at Red Gate is releasing new changes every Wednesday, which reminds Steve Jones of a time earlier in his career.
2018-06-20 (first published: 2015-04-08)
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After Six Months On The Job What Challenges Remain?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks what you might do when you get settled at a new job.
2018-06-19 (first published: 2015-04-10)
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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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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
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Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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