For March’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation, Damien has asked us to consider a wish list for Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI. AI has been a hot topic in recent months, largely due to the attention from tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E from OpenAI. These tools and future iterations or derivatives will almost inevitably shape the way […]
This month’s invitation from Garry asks us to talk about what SQL related end of year activities we have to look forward to. Garry has included a few typical DBA examples such as archiving or purging out old data, or updating calendars such as dimension tables or even partition schemes for the new year to come. However […]
This month’s invitation from Tom Zika asks us to consider production code and consider what quality makes the code ‘production grade’. It’s interesting to think about all of the areas we may want to consider before putting some code into production – has it been reviewed, has it gone through sufficient testing, does it perform well […]
This months’ invitation from Steve Jones asks us to write about producing SQL dynamically in some form or another. We can create and execute SQL dynamically within our procedures but what about dynamically creating it from other sources before passing it into SQL Server? The quick I have to admit that Steve’s mention of using Excel […]
This month’s invitation from Glenn is to write about what we’ve been doing with SQL Server 2022 as we’ve now had a release candidate unleashed upon the world. Personally I haven’t had the time to adventure through the new features or put any stress onto the version as of yet – the exception being testing […]
As Deborah’s invitation opens this month she quite rightly points out that there are a lot of professionals out there who have a few (passionate) opinions about what they do or the way they do it. This month we’re invited to … well, have a rant – a rant about those experiences which have shaped […]
This month’s invitation comes from Mala who asks us about the T-SQL coding rules relevant for where we work. There’s certainly a lot of scope in this question and Mala links to a great set of posts from Robert Sheldon which cover quite a number of these points. Whilst larger businesses may well have matured standards in […]
This month’s invitation from Kenneth Fisher asks us to share our first tech job. As he points out there are a lot of DBAs who don’t start out working with databases and we slowly succumb to the dark side (my words, not his), intentionally or otherwise. During a gap year whilst at university I joined […]
This month’s invitation from Camila Henrique asks us for advice we’d give to our younger selves in our T-SQL journey. Coming from the SQL Server perspective there’s a huge variety of areas within the stack where you might want to provide some advice but I’m going to focus on the scripting and querying as that’s […]
This month’s invitation from Steve is asking about strategies for upgrades with SQL Server. We might be more familiar with patching a SQL environment semi-regularly – and those processes may be tried and trusted – however its much rarer that we have the opportunity to uplift an entire environment to a later version. Here’s a […]
Andy Brownsword 