SQL Test: Seeing Red Change to Green
Rob Sullivan is one of the users who are helping shape the way that SQL Test develops, and here he explains what is going on, and why.
On Database Migrations and Agility
It always surprises me when Application programmers tell me that all 'Agile' techniques are directly applicable to database development. Ideally, yes; but reality gets in the way.
SSMS Shared SQL Templates
This article describes how to use the built in repository for SQL Server Management Studio Templates and how to customize and share a common repository with your team.
The Stubborn DBA
Today we have a guest editorial from Phil Factor. Phil wonders why so many people in technology can be stubborn. Are you a stubborn DBA?
Constraints and the Test-Driven Database
Bad data always seems to appear when, and where, one least expects it. Sam explains the great value of a defensive approach based on constraints to any team that is developing an application in which the data has to be exactly right, and where bad data could cause consequential severe financial damage. It is perhaps better seen as creating a test-driven database.
TSQL Challenge 73 - Implement Word Wrapping in TSQL
The challenge is to wrap the text by specified position.
Read-only Data
Today's poll looks at read only data and how you handle the backup and recovery of this data.
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1)
The first of a two-part series of articles examining the APPLY operator. Learn the basics of how this operator works and how it can help you solve some tricky problems.
T-SQL Development, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Word
Microsoft Office Word is useful. There, I have confessed it, it's useful to me while I am working with TSQL. It's possibly only the search and replace function that I like but it's wrapped in Word so I have to take it like that. I use it a lot to help me capture the results of a stored procedure.
Are Auto-Updates Good?
Internet Explorer is going to get automatic updates soon and Steve Jones thinks it's a mixed blessing.
Blogs
From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Forums
how to write this query?
Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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