Query tuning: Apply yourself
It’s Friday and I’m ready for the weekend as I’m sure everyone else is. This weekend I’m looking forward to...
2018-04-16 (first published: 2018-04-06)
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Confessions of a Microsoft Addict
SSMS now has a vulnerability report
Security is an important and often overlooked function of technology. Don’t believe me? Go to a SQL conference and look...
2018-03-29
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The best overlooked addition to SQL 2016
Many of the widely advertised and talked about features of SQL Server or other software products focus exclusively on the...
2018-03-07
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Classifying your data in Azure SQL DB for GDPR
Azure SQL DB is a robust data platform that’s cloud native and can be managed from SQL Server Management Studio...
2018-03-06
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How to classify your data for GDPR
The right to be forgotten. It’s a concept that sounds great for people who are concerned about their personal information...
2018-03-05
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SQL Saturday Chicago: I’m speaking
If you’re in Chicago on March 17 and have some free time, why not check out all the cool kids?...
2018-02-19
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STORPORT: Reading an ETL trace
One of the things I enjoy most is diagnosing storage latency. I honestly couldn’t tell you why I enjoy it...
2018-03-05 (first published: 2018-02-19)
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PaaS and the ever changing role of the DBA
I’ve never been a fan of a GUI for DBA work. Give me a hand crafted script or a list...
2017-12-26 (first published: 2017-12-12)
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How to be a successful innovator
Let’s say you have some obscure list of career goals for the year and one of those is to be...
2017-11-09
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Always update your views
I last posted about changing a table without changing a view that represents the table and how this may affect...
2017-10-03
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...