Is your Team Willing to Take Control?
The calendar tells us that once again we have reached the second tuesday of the month. In the SQL Community,...
2014-07-08
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Jason Brimhall
Free SQL Training In Sacramento
In a few short days the newest SQL Saturday event. This one will be on the far West coast of...
2014-07-07
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Free SQL Training In Sacramento
In a few short days the newest SQL Saturday event. This one will be on the far West coast of the United States. This marks the first time for...
2014-07-07
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Using Synonyms to Extend SSIS
There are a million and one uses for synonyms. There are at least that many uses for SSIS. The reality is, not all of those uses are good for...
2014-07-03
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Using Synonyms to Extend SSIS
There are a million and one uses for synonyms. There are at least that many uses for SSIS. The reality...
2014-07-03
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Auditing and Event SubClasses
A recent discussion got me to thinking about Auditing. To be honest, it got started with a complaint about some...
2014-06-02 (first published: 2014-05-28)
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Can you partition a temporary table?
Reading that title, you might sit and wonder why you would ever want to partition a temporary table. I too...
2014-05-29 (first published: 2014-05-23)
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Auditing and Event SubClasses
A recent discussion got me to thinking about Auditing. To be honest, it got started with a complaint about some documentation that seemed overly light about the various fields...
2014-05-28
5 reads
Can you partition a temporary table?
Reading that title, you might sit and wonder why you would ever want to partition a temporary table. I too would wonder the same thing. That withstanding, it is...
2014-05-23
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Missing Indexes Script v2
Frequently we hear the analogy that <insert item here> is like opinions, everybody has one and not all of them...
2014-05-22 (first published: 2014-05-15)
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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
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...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Having a Little Fun at...
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