Microsoft presents: MySQL and PostgreSQL?
For the longest time, MySQL has been the recommended database platform for blogs and other websites. It’s free. It’s available...
2017-08-16
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Randolph West
- Twitter: @_randolph_west
- Website: https://bornsql.ca/blog/
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rabryst/
This is how I recovered from a catastrophic failure
I was fresh off the boat* from South Africa, working in a small computer store in an equally small town...
2017-08-09
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Locks, Blocks, and Isolation Levels
Last week we looked at ACID compliance. This week we dive a little deeper into the Isolation portion, and what...
2017-08-02
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Acids and Databases: A look at ACID and transactions
Relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL use transactions to allow concurrent users to...
2017-07-26
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What is a good Disaster Recovery Plan?
During a Q&A session I hosted at our local Calgary SQL Server User Group last month, one of the attendees...
2017-07-19
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Be Wary of Date Formatting in T-SQL
Today’s public service announcement is a reminder to be wary of date formatting in SQL Server. On a recent mailing...
2017-07-12
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Balanced Power Saving T-SQL script
We can easily spend tens of thousands of dollars on core licences for SQL Server, and then we go and...
2017-07-05
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Where To From Fundamentals?
The Database Fundamentals series is now done. We started with understanding what a database is, and then spent a little...
2017-06-28
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Why You Need A Test Environment
In 2017, there’s no excuse not to have at least a testing environment, and preferably a development environment as well,...
2017-06-21
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How to write a DELETE query
My First DELETE Statement Here are the links to the previous posts in this series: My First SELECT Statement My...
2017-06-14
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
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