SQL Server 2019 on Apple Silicon redux: it actually works
Last month I wrote a blog post suggesting that it was not possible to get SQL Server 2019 running on Apple Silicon. I hedged my statement by saying you...
2022-01-12
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Born SQL with Randolph West
One year later: my look back on the PASS organization
My good friend and talented singer Rob Volk reminded me recently that I had promised to write about my involvement with PASS at the end of its life, and I...
2022-01-05
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And that’s a wrap
It’s the final week of 2021, a year that was both twice as long and half the length of 2020. If you can, please make sure you are vaccinated...
2021-12-29
10 reads
On the nature of constant change
Recently my spouse and I travelled to South Africa (yes, I know there’s a pandemic on) to deal with a gloomy family matter that required in-person interaction. Being an...
2022-01-03 (first published: 2021-12-22)
187 reads
You can’t run SQL Server on Apple Silicon, and it sucks
Prior to 2017, the only way to get SQL Server running on a Mac was through a virtual machine running some version of Windows that supported some version of...
2021-12-15
50 reads
Your next step in the cloud
Over the last nine months I’ve presented (virtually) eleven times on a variety of topics relating to SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Platform. Long-time readers will know I...
2021-12-08
12 reads
Be careful with table updates
The dire warning in the subject line is not meant to scare you. Rather, it is advice that is going to be useful to those of us who need...
2021-12-01
132 reads
Days of future past
There’s a lot going on in the world today. It feels like there’s too much for us to think about. Speaking for myself, I’m worried about the environment first...
2021-11-17
9 reads
Table Valued Parameters and Dapper in .NET Core
A customer I’ve been working with for a while now has a monolithic ASP.NET MVC web application which we are porting to .NET Core 3.1 (and then almost immediately...
2021-11-10
1,136 reads
SQL Server 2022 announced
SQL Server 2022 was announced yesterday at Microsoft Ignite, and it’s going to be a big one. Building on a lot of work in the Azure SQL space, SQL...
2021-11-03
93 reads
Blogs
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
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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