In Praise of Barebones Applications
The English voice of IT reason, Phil Factor, brings us a guest editorial. Today he waxes about the overbearing processes used to build internal corporate applications.
Explore XML Data Type in SQL Server
SQL Server 2005 and 2008 provide native XML data type and provides extensive support for XML data processing. The easy conversion from XML to a relational table provides a way for set-based updates based on user input.
Generating SQL Scripts using Windows PowerShell
In a previous tip on SQL Script Generation Programmatically with SMO, you've seen how you can use SMO to generate SQL scripts programmatically. In this tip I will cover how to generate scripts using Windows PowerShell.
The old INNER JOIN syntax vs. the new INNER JOIN syntax
I was in a presentation last week where the presenter was talking about the ANSI/ISO SQL standards. For the most part the...
TSQL Challenge #14
A new challenge is up. See if you are up for the task of identifying the longest sequence of characters in a string before Oct 12
COPY_ONLY Backups
What are COPY_ONLY backups and why do we care? New author Charles Kincaid walks us through the basics of how you can create one of these backups.
Generation X
Steve Jones is a part of Generation X, who surprisingly seems to be more Web 2.0 oriented than Generation Y.
Energy Intelligence
Given that companies spend on average between 7 and 12 percent of their annual budgets on energy – a focus on reducing energy consumption can have significant bottom-line impact
Generation X
Steve Jones is a part of Generation X, who surprisingly seems to be more Web 2.0 oriented than Generation Y.
Generation X
Steve Jones is a part of Generation X, who surprisingly seems to be more Web 2.0 oriented than Generation Y.
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
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...
Forums
String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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