The last two weeks have brought a (seemingly) daily deluge of difficult news in the tech sector. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon have all had significant layoffs with many friends in the #SQLFamily and data community being impacted. In times of uncertainty and heightened anxiety, it’s essential to have a group you can turn to […]
I am an amateur radio operator. In the US this is commonly referred to as a ham, or a ham radio operator. My call sign is KC1KCE, as issued by the US government through the FCC. And yeah, I can hear you now, a ham is the geek equivalent of a cross-fitter. How do you […]
Culture is important retaining employers. Companies are finding this more valuable every day.
In this article, Glen Cooper provides code that allows you to process a tree, or undirected graph of data. Lots of hierarchies fall into this category and the ability to process them is valuable in many reporting situations.
In this article, we look at how to do a point in time restore using TSQL and SSMS to recover a database to a particular point in time.
When faced with choices, it's important to understand the capabilities and limitations of your options.
In part 2, we discuss the concepts of structure, tooling, and indexing for your data ingestion pipelines.
In this article, I want to talk about a topic that you may never need. The only time I have really had need to look at the bits in a byte pattern. In (what is now) ancient versions of SQL Server didn't have such self-describing columns like in its metadata objects like it does now.
If you're deploying SQL Server, you are likely running business-critical applications on it and you need to ensure it's protected from downtime and data loss.
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
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Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
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As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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