The Data Warehousing Choice
What is your choice for data warehousing? Is it a cloud platform? Which one is attractive to you?
The Hidden Cost of MAXDOP: CPU Spikes, Query Slowdowns, and What We Learned
Misusing MAXDOP can silently kill performance across your SQL Server. In this deep dive, we uncover how one bad query caused CPU meltdown, run real-world tests, and show how tuning—not parallelism—often holds the true fix.
Recovering data in SQL Server without full backup
There are multiple reasons for no full backup: corrupted backups, taking too much time to restore, etc. In this post, I want to show an alternative for these cases, an ace up one’s sleeve, that you can use to recover data.
Shades and Reflecting on SQLBits and the Bright Future of Data
There is something magical about SQLBits. Whether it is the technical sessions, the sense of community and fun, or the relentless commitment to learning about the latest innovation, this event continues to serve as a pulse check for where data is today and where it’s going tomorrow. This year’s SQLBits at the ExCel in London […]
How to Choose the Right Tool for MS SQL to PostgreSQL Migration
Learn about a few different options for migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL.
Multiple Monitoring Tools
Steve wonders if it is worth it to use multiple monitoring systems for a database.
SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 24.04 step by step
Microsoft does not yet support this edition of Ubuntu, but there are some workarounds to make it work. This should not be used for production usage and this blog is for educational/testing purposes only.
SQL Server 2025 Excitement
Today Steve wonders how many of you might be looking forward to SQL Server 2025 and consider it to be a major release.
Parent – Child Task Automation in Snowflake via Task Graph
This article explores how to use Snowflake’s task features to implement parent-child data workflows. We will walk through a real-world scenario in which a healthcare organization manages patient records using a sequence of tasks for data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and reporting.
Greener Grass
Before I start the whining (whinging if you prefer), let me just say I have the greatest job in the world. I'm exceedingly lucky to have it. I'm grateful as can be. And someone else (looking at you Tim) can get it when they pry it from my dead cold fingers. With that out of […]
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers