PowerHour - Online PowerShell Lightning Talks!
Earlier this week, the PowerHour was announced. What is it? It’s kind of like a virtual user group. One hour, 6(ish) lightning demos (10 minutes or less), centered on...
2018-08-03
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T-SQL Tuesday #104 - Code You Would Hate To Live Without
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bert Wagner and he asks us to write about code we’ve written that we would hate to live without.
First off, “hate” is...
2018-07-10
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Volunteer for PASS!
This week, I had the opportunity to be the moderator for Joseph Barth’s (blog|twitter) 24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview session about Azure Data Factory V2. It was fun,...
2018-06-15
Becoming a Production DBA - A Family Decision
I really enjoy my job. I became a full-time production DBA about 14 months ago and it has been an overwhelmingly positive move. I work for a good company...
2018-06-06
Triggers vs. Default Constraints: Choose Wisely
Triggers can be really useful in your database but you have to be careful with them. We often use them to record history to a separate table (at least,...
2018-05-29
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Quick Table Info Export with PowerShell
This week I had a user come to me asking about how fields were defined on a few tables he was using in writing some reports. Long story short,...
2018-05-18
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Processing SQL Saturday Raffle Tickets with PowerShell
Every year, I spend the Sunday after SQL Saturday Rochester scanning & processing raffle tickets for our wonderful sponsors. Here’s how the system works:
Attendees get tickets (one ticket per...
2018-04-10
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Appearance: SQL Data Partners Podcast
A couple weeks ago Carlos L. Cachon (blog|twitter) put out a call on Twitter looking for SQL Saturday organizers to join him on the SQL Data Partners Podcast. When...
2018-03-08
T-SQL Tuesday #99 - Dealer's Choice / sqlibrium
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday from Aaron Bertrand gives us a choice:
Life beyond the technical in a search for what Drew with the Burdensome Name calls #sqlibrium Your own T-SQL...
2018-02-13
PASS Summit 2017 Wrap-Up - The People!
I need a new social media profile picture.
That’s one of the most important (non-technical) conclusions I drew from my week at PASS Summit 2017. It seemed like everywhere I...
2018-02-05
Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
Forums
Attaching an SQL Server database without Transaction Log Files through SQL Server Management Studio.
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Superseded Indexes
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Question of the Day
Superseded Indexes
Which of these indexes is superseded by another?
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