Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to avoid having SQL Server name them for you. I closed with the following statement:
SQL Server...
2026-04-17 (first published: 2026-04-06)
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I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person twice in May 2026. With summer vacations coming up, this is a perfect time of...
2026-03-30
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This is long overdue but life and distractions happened. It’s been a little over two months since I returned home from PASS Summit 2025.
2026-02-06 (first published: 2026-01-26)
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Mike Walsh
(blog) asks us:
Write two short notes to yourself. One to the...
2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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Thank you for attending my PASS Summit 2025 session Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation! I will have a more comprehensive post in the coming days. Slides and demo...
2025-11-21
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I’ve been enjoying Ben Weissmann (Blog | LinkedIn) & Jess Pomfret’s (Blog | LinkedIn ) weekly program Finding Data Friends for a couple years now, getting to know (by...
2025-10-27
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In less than one month, I will be speaking not once but twice at PASS Data Community Summit 2025.
Thursday, November 20th at 1 PM I will be in the...
2025-10-20
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I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a need to install an older version of dbatools to test something related to loading the...
2025-10-06 (first published: 2025-09-16)
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In the blink of an eye, summer has passed. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for things to get back to “normal” after 10 weeks of events...
2025-09-08
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, John Sterrett
(blog) asks us:
What are you doing, or what can we do...
2025-07-08
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By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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