As a DBA, how do I offload some of my work?
I don't have time for this “I am a DBA, I am busy, too busy. Developers keep pushing changes to production without me reviewing the code, and now I...
2019-06-13
Ed Elliott
What is the key to automated database deployments?
In my blog post here https://the.agilesql.club/blogs/ed-elliott/2019-06-10/steps-to-automated-database-deployments I described the steps you need to go through so you can build up your confidence that you are capable of deploying databases...
2019-06-11
10 reads
What is the key to automated database deployments?
In my blog post here https://the.agilesql.club/2019/06/what-steps-are-there-to-move-to-safe-automated-database-deployments/ I described the steps you need to go through so you can build up your confidence that you are capable of deploying databases...
2019-06-11
1 reads
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
93 reads
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
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
5 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
2 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
11 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
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
327 reads
Blogs
Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
By Steve Jones
The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here:...
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
By Brian Kelley
I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He...
Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng
This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting...
Forums
SQL server help (converting rows to columns)
I am using the following sql to convert rows into columns for each pid,...
Ingesting Data From REST API endpoints: Data Engineering with Fabric
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Separate Reads
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Question of the Day
The Hash Join I
What are the two inputs called to a hash join operation in SQL Server? (choose 2)
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