Automation starts by doing something once, very very carefully: T-SQL Tuesday #110
After a while the intros for my T-SQL Tuesday posts get a little boring. So without any further ado, it’s...
2019-01-08
205 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Identity in a SELECT
Always be learning right? So when I saw this I had to go HU?! That’s new. What’s going on here?
SELECT
IDENTITY(INT,...
2019-01-02 (first published: 2018-12-19)
7,024 reads
SQL Homework – January 2019 – Baselines
Happy New Year! Every year for New Years we all make a big deal of coming up with New Years...
2019-01-02
1,076 reads
Using Microsoft Learn
I’ve just signed up on Microsoft’s new learning opportunity Microsoft Learn. The main categories are Azure, Business Apps, and Windows...
2018-12-31
428 reads
Oh Query, Query, Query
I thought I would post this a bit early so everyone can memorize the words before Hanukka starts next week.
I...
2018-12-18 (first published: 2018-11-28)
2,756 reads
Savings changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created.
Microsoft does a lot of things to try to help us not shoot ourselves in the foot. This little error...
2018-12-17
1,013 reads
Bulk insert and an identity column
TL;DR; BULK INSERT doesn’t have an easy way to specify a column list so the columns in the insert file...
2018-12-12
946 reads
Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds
We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016...
2018-12-10
230 reads
My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)
A while back I wrote about how to find where your backups are. And I’ve also written about I use...
2018-12-10 (first published: 2018-11-26)
2,079 reads
UDL files and connection strings
A co-worker showed me a really neat trick the other day. We deal with a lot of connection problems and...
2018-12-05
7,092 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
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Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
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Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
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Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers