This month, my good friend and fellow Dune-fan Joe Fleming (@muaddba.bsky.social) from SQL Tailor Consulting asks us about weird problems, and in particular, how we troubleshoot them. Now, 'weird' is…

There are some things I really like about SQL Agent Jobs, which is why I'm secretly quite fond of this month's T-SQL Tuesday topic, from Andy Levy. Of course, there…

Erik Darling insisted on a video for T-SQL Tuesday this month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_H6haG99l8 If you're more of a text person... The video shows how you can get the 'map mode' behaviour…

Mentoring is one of the ways I like to sow into the technical community. I feel like the community is much more about the individuals in it than the masses.…

Steve Jones (@way0utwest@bluesky), who has coordinated the T-SQL Tuesday blog party since Adam Machanic stepped down, is also hosting this month. And he asks us about database permissions. How we…

I was the host for T-SQL Tuesday this month, inviting people to write about integrity. And because I don't believe in just providing a list of posts (although I've also…

I am NOT suggesting that data integrity is irrelevant. Not at all. But how often do we need an enforced primary key or foreign key? Be warned - I'm not…

It's my turn to host T-SQL Tuesday again. It's been a while for me. I think the last time was when the topic was Plan Operators and my round-up included…

Nine Christmases ago, in late November 2015, Microsoft released Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2012, and included a gift just for me! Only kind of just for me, really…

I don't like to write about client situations, but this one seemed worth mentioning for the sake of other people experiencing the same thing, so I asked my client for…