Are You A Technical Expert or Manager?
Expert or Manager? Why not both.
Are you a Technical Expert or a Manager? You certainly cannot be both.
At least that’s...
2013-01-29
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John Sansom
How To Win Career Gold
The start of a new working year is often a time for self reflection. This is a great thing, it’s...
2013-01-22
1,045 reads
Top 10 Free SQL Server Tools
What better way to kick off a new year than with a look back at some of the top free...
2013-01-15
12,821 reads
Step Up and Take More Ownership
This post is part of the T-SQL Tuesday Meme, this month hosted by Jason Brimhall. His chosen theme, to come up with...
2013-01-08
1,552 reads
Your Top 10 Posts of the Year
Top of the Flops
Short and sweet today, here’s what you enjoyed reading the most this year on the blog. No...
2012-12-17
777 reads
The Great DBA Getaway
Free, at last!
It’s holiday season which means it’s a time for you all to buy me gifts super busy time for Data...
2012-12-12
1,016 reads
A Journey To SQL Authority
I am delighted to welcome to the blog someone who is without a doubt one of the biggest names in...
2012-10-09
1,119 reads
Clients Love The Way I Jiggle
It’s one of the most enjoyable things about being a consultant.
I’m not talking about my suspect dance moves here. I’m...
2012-09-18
1,128 reads
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 14/09/12
It’s SFTW Time, I hope you’ve had a great week!
Make sure you don’t miss this weekly round-up of SQL Server Links,...
2012-09-14
1,524 reads
How To Simply Say You’re a DBA
Have you ever looked back on a conversation where someone asked you “what do you do?” and felt disappointed with your reply?...
2012-09-03
970 reads
Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?
Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...
Blob Storage automated downloads
Dipping my toes into the waters of Azure and of course before I get...
Announcing SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers