What steps are there to move to safe automated database deployments?
Database deployments are scary, you have all this data and if you drop the wrong table, run the wrong delete statement or have an error in a stored procedure...
2019-06-10
3 reads
Ed Elliott
How do you choose which columns to include in your SQL Server clustered index?
Database Engineering: Database Modelling: Do I need to have an incrementing identity int/bigint as my clustered index in a SQL Server database? When you want to produce a professional...
2019-06-03
9 reads
How do you choose which columns to include in your SQL Server clustered index?
Database Engineering: Database Modelling: Do I need to have an incrementing identity int/bigint as my clustered index in a SQL Server database? When you want to produce a professional...
2019-06-03
6 reads
Why is my pivot query not returning any data? How to debug a PIVOT query
If you have a PIVOT query and it isn’t returning the data you expect, what can you do to troubleshoot it? The thing to do is to break it...
2019-05-21
21 reads
Why is my pivot query not returning any data? How to debug a PIVOT query
If you have a PIVOT query and it isn't returning the data you expect, what can you do to troubleshoot it? The thing to do is to break it...
2019-05-21
6 reads
How to delete a lot of data from a SQL Server database
How to delete data efficiently When we delete data from a table in SQL Server, we can often find that the delete is slower than even the original insert,...
2019-05-15
336 reads
How to delete a lot of data from a SQL Server database
How to delete data efficiently When we delete data from a table in SQL Server, we can often find that the delete is slower than even the original insert,...
2019-05-15
4 reads
How to load test a SQL database
How do you know whether a database code change is going to be great, okay or awful? If you want to test a new version of SQL Server how...
2019-05-08
293 reads
How to load test a SQL database
How do you know whether a database code change is going to be great, okay or awful? If you want to test a new version of SQL Server how...
2019-05-08
8 reads
Should I pluralize table names, is it Person, Persons, People or People?
Reading Time: 5 minutes (just do it!)
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How...
2019-05-02
17 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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