Fixing Impostor Syndrome
Lessons on impostor syndrome from a marketer apply to technologists as well.
Understanding the System Function FILEPROPERTY()
Learn how to use the system function, FILEPROPERTY(), to get information about your database in T-SQL.
Data Visualizations for Excel Multi-Chart Sets with SQL Server Data
This article covers how to create multi-chart visualizations in Excel using data from SQL Server.
Rollbacks, Undos and Undonts
Rollback scripts are designed to allow us to recover safely from a failed deployment that leaves the database in an indeterminate state. They must check exactly what needs to be reverted before doing so. If you work with an RDBMS that cannot support transaction DDL rollback they are vital. This article proposes a strategy where you create and test a rollback file, at the same time as the forward migration, and reuse it as a Flyway undo script.
Developer Optimism
Developers, in general, are very optimistic about the code they write. This is likely one cause of their estimates of the time required being low, as well as the various bugs that slip through because of corner cases that appear for the problem being solved. Often developers think they've considered the various ways this code […]
SQL Ledger: Protecting Data in Azure SQL
Learn how you can set up and use Ledger tables in an Azure SQL Database to verify the integrity of your database changes.
How to Expand a Range of Dates into Rows with the SQL Server Function GENERATE_SERIES
In this tip, we cover how to use the GENERATE_SERIES function to expand a range of dates into rows
Introducing the MySQL SELECT statement
Use SELECT statements to query a MySQL database. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how.
The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop
Many people have used a "Numbers" or "Tally" table without really knowing what it does. This is an introduction as to how a Tally table replaces a loop.
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How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
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Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
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The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
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After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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