Action Over Knowledge
A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.
2024-05-01
64 reads
Editorials
Why Early Code Review is Important for Database Deployments
Today, Kendra Little talks about code reviews and why they should be done early.
2024-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-07)
287 reads
One more reason to use foreign key constraints
Since the title might be considered a bit vague, I don’t want you to wade through the article to figure it out. I will spare you the typical clickbait introduction, with me telling you what a foreign key constraint is, and why it and all the other constraint types provided by relational engines are useful. […]
2024-04-27
115 reads
Good Luck is Needed with Old Versions
Today, Grant talks about reasons that companies don't upgrade.
2024-04-26 (first published: 2020-02-11)
428 reads
Toilets and Your Systems
Today, Grant Fritchey compares a disaster caused by a toilet to technical debt in IT.
2024-04-24 (first published: 2020-02-24)
409 reads
Seagull Management
Management is important to ensuring the success of a team. Steve talks about an anti-pattern that is often used by poor managers.
2024-04-22
158 reads
Do you listen to music when you work?
I want to make this a participation topic. When you are working, do you listen to music or do you need quiet? And if it isn’t music, do you do something else? TV, movies? For me, it is almost always music. As I write my first Database Weekly newsletter editorial in a few months, I […]
2024-04-20
109 reads
2024-04-19 (first published: 2020-01-21)
468 reads
Missing the Office
Steve talks about being back in an office today, at a customer where everyone comes in every day.
2024-04-17
100 reads
Kendra’s Top 3 Tips for Working Remotely
A guest editorial today from Kendra has a few tips for working from home.
2024-04-15 (first published: 2020-03-12)
1,217 reads
Blogs
Use a slicer to filter a visual based upon a measure in Power BI
Have you ever wanted to filter a visual by selecting a range of values...
Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the...
Microsoft Fabric shortcuts
By James Serra
I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the...
Forums
SQL Server software and windows version compatibility level
Is there a specific platform or website where I can verify the compatibility between...
Truncate tables where Referential Integrity exists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Truncate tables where Referential Integrity...
Blocking question
Hi all, We have a SSIS package that does 2 things in parallel: moves...
Question of the Day
Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database
I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?
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