Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATE
This post continues our look at date and time data types in SQL Server. SQL Server 2008 introduced new data...
2018-03-07
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Born SQL with Randolph West
Dates and Times in SQL Server: SMALLDATETIME
Last week I spoke about a world wary data type for storing dates and times in a single column, with...
2018-02-28
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Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATETIME
Last year I ran a series of posts about Database Fundamentals. Over the next few weeks, I will cover the...
2018-02-21
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Why nested views are bad
Nested views are bad. Let’s get that out of the way. What is a nested view anyway? Imagine that you...
2018-02-14
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Help the fight against cancer
Tom Roush The SQL Family lost a much admired member to cancer last month, Tom Roush. In our little community,...
2018-02-07
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Speaking at SQLSaturday 725 in Victoria
Victoria is on an island off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia. The island is wisely called Vancouver Island. It...
2018-01-31
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Speaking at SQLBits next month
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I will be presenting for the first time at SQLBits in London,...
2018-01-24
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Secure or fast? Secure, obviously …
By now you have probably seen the news about a major flaw in the design of CPUs from all major...
2018-01-17
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The cloud is not just someone else’s computer
A year ago, I wrote in a post that cloud computing is just someone else’s data center. I was wrong. Whether...
2018-01-10
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Welcome to 2018
I have been working on a new information session, which I’m hoping to deliver this year. It’s about one of...
2018-01-03
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Blogs
A New Word: Lilo
By Steve Jones
lilo– n. a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right...
Learning Database Design and Power BI Performance
I spend my days working on and managing SQL Server instances—working days at least,...
Free SQL Training: Dive into Databases This December!
Want to learn SQL and get some real practice this December? Check out the...
Forums
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Subscribing to a Great New Year
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Question of the Day
The Funny Dynamic SQL
What happens when I run this code:
EXEC sp_executesql N'PRINT 1; GO';See possible answers