Don’t forget to drop your views
I had a fairly puzzling issue today, which took a few minutes to figure out. Some time ago I created...
2017-10-02 (first published: 2017-09-25)
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Confessions of a Microsoft Addict
SQL Server: The danger of large data types
Databases are platforms that are designed to securely store and retrieve your data. Perhaps that’s why they’re called a data...
2017-09-22
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Offtopic: Lifehack: Old tech has many purposes
For those that don’t know, I live in Texas. Been here all my life. There are two main things north...
2017-09-15 (first published: 2017-09-11)
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SQL Server: SARGability part 2
In case you missed the first post on this topic, you can read it here: SQL Server: SARGability. This post...
2017-09-12 (first published: 2017-09-07)
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Thank you for Microsoft MVP
My head may very well explode. I was done some tuning today and glanced at the Outlook new mail notification....
2017-09-02
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SQL Server: SARGability
SARG is short for Search Argument. This is an important tuning term and something every developer and DBA should know....
2017-08-31
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SQL Server vs Oracle: Substring
Continuing the comparison between these two database giants, we dive into the substring function. If you’ve been working with databases...
2017-09-05 (first published: 2017-08-23)
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I’m speaking: SQL Saturday Orlando (Oct 7th 17)
It’s been a while since I’ve done a SQL Saturday and I’m happy to be joining the folks in Orlando...
2017-08-16
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SQL Server vs Oracle: How to replace NULL values
It’s Wednesday and that means another SQL/Oracle post. Today we’ll be discussing NULL Values, which can sometimes be a real...
2017-08-28 (first published: 2017-08-16)
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SQL Server vs Oracle: Convert string to date
Over this week we’ve looked at the difference between Oracle and SQL Server from a few different angles. We’ve looked...
2017-08-11
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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...
Forums
Compare rows within the same table
I have a table. Structure in script below. I have to compare and see...
Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers