TSQL Challenge 27 - Identify overlapping weekly schedules of Nurses
This challenge is related a scheduling problem in the home health care industry. The task is to look into the schedules of nurses and identify any overlapping schedules.
A High Level Comparison Between Oracle and SQL Server - Part IV
The concluding part of the Oracle / SQL Server comparison looks at error logging, security, installation and finally querying the databases.
Decoding the SQL Server Index Structure
A deep dive into the implementation of indexes in SQL Server 2008 R2. This is information that you must know in order to tune your queries for optimum performance. Partial scans of indexes are now possible!
No More NULL
A change in the support for NULL values has Steve Jones commenting on the implications.
Insider Insights
Insider rumours and gossip from the murky world of the Database Industry, and from the colourful characters that inhabit it.
ORM Mapping
A guest editorial from Phil Factor that discusses ORMs and how they ca be used, or mis-used, in our applications.
Managing Your Backup Files
I recently posted a couple of scripts that backup all databases on your SQL Server instance to disk with a...
SQL Server 2008 - Accessing Audit Details
Learn how to use the SQL Server 2008 catalog view and dynamic management view to access the audit details of existing server and database level audits.
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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