How to Rename a Column in SQL Server
Learn how to effectively rename columns in SQL Server using our comprehensive guide. Explore the use of sp_rename, limitations, and best practices
What Do You Want to Learn?
There's a survey available to give your input for what topics you'd like to learn about at the next SQL Saturday.
Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing XML in SQL Server
XML is a common storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other semi-structured data. Because of this, it often finds its way into SQL Server databases and needs to be managed alongside other data types.
Cloud Transformation
There are lots of companies moving databases to the cloud. Steve has a few thoughts on how to evaluate this for your company.
How I Used PostgreSQL RLS To Avoid Code Changes During a Migration
This article discusses how one person implemented Row Level Security in PostgreSQL to help with a data migration from a single tenant to a multi-tenant database structure.
Query Exercise: Beat ChatGPT at Finding Good Question Times
What are the best days of the week and times of the day to post a question at StackOverflow.com?
SQL Injection Is Not Acceptable
An alert from the US government says that SQL Injection isn't an acceptable problem.
SQL Server TRY CATCH, RAISERROR and THROW for Error Handling
Learn about SQL Server error handling using TRY CATCH, RAISERROR, and THROW for stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions.
Blogs
From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
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As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
“We love to debate minutiae”
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I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Forums
how to write this query?
Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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