What is interpolation?
In this article, Joe Celko explains interpolation and covers a bit about the history and what we all did before computers.
2021-03-31
T-SQL
Scripts to Automate Creating and Loading a SQL Server Table
Use these T-SQL strategies for dropping, creating, and populating tables in custom schemas across different SQL Server versions from SQL Server 2019 back to SQL Server 2005.
2021-03-24
A data transformation problem in SQL and Scala: Dovetailing declarative solutions
This article is an interesting approach to solving a data transformation problem in SQL and Scala. Shel Burkow uses a SQL execution plan for software design.
2021-03-18
T-SQL Tips and Tricks
In this article learn some TSQL tips and tricks working with CTEs, UPDATES, Window Functions, Duplicate Rows, Tally Tables and Concatenating string values in SQL Server
2021-03-10
sqldf in R Example for SQL Server
R has a package called sqldf that allows developers to manipulate data inside a dataframe in the same way a SQL developer queries a SQL table which we will cover with examples in this article.
2021-03-01
How to Batch Updates A Few Thousand Rows at a Time
In this post, Brent explains how to use a combination of two separate topics that he has blogged about recently.
2021-01-20
Check Windows Services Status with T-SQL
In this article we look at creating a SQL Server stored procedure that displays a list of all Windows services based on running or stopped state.
2020-11-24
Managing Cross-Database Object References
Phil Factor explains cross database and cross-server references, how to find them in your code, and when it's better to avoid hard-coding these references and use synonyms instead.
2020-11-20
Using Triggers to Replace Scalar UDFs on Computed Columns
Using Triggers to Replace Scalar UDFs with Brent Ozar.
2020-11-16
Dynamic Data Unmasking
The SQL Server 2016 dynamic data masking feature may seem like a great way to obfuscate data for downstream systems like dev and QA. Joe Obbish shows us that the data can be “unmasked” with T-SQL statements, so it’s not secure against anyone who can write their own queries.
2020-10-16
Blogs
Daily Coping 28 Jun 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Creating a Database Audit Specification can create new users & schemas in the background
I love database audits. They are simple, easy to use, effective, not overly resource...
Alert Filtering in SQL Monitor
By Steve Jones
SQL Monitor has improved a lot over the last couple of years. We have...
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