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Comment on Ageing code by Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:47:49 +0000

In reply to Hugo Kornelis. Yes, true. I was using smaller numbers than I would typically see in a scaling environment.

Comment on String parsing by Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:43:07 +0000

In reply to Thomas Franz. Yes - without a FROM or WHERE, a scalar subquery can be CROSS APPLY instead of OUTER APPLY. But I mention OUTER because sometimes (just not in this example) I might have a table of numbers involved, and maybe have zero rows in some cases.

Comment on Ageing code by Hugo Kornelis

Hugo Kornelis — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:23:06 +0000

Uhm. Minor thing here. With TOP(100), a Sort (Top N Sort) operator will never have a large memory grant. If you change the example to use TOP (129) (or more), then you would be correct.

Comment on String parsing by Thomas Franz

Thomas Franz — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:36:09 +0000

in your example you could have used CROSS APPLY (similar to INNER JOIN) instead of OUTER APPLY (= LEFT JOIN), since the simple calculations done, will always produce a single return line

Comment on The younger generation in the SQL community by John Sterrett

John Sterrett — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:37:45 +0000

This is awesome, Rob. Glad to get your takes, especially from the other side of the globe.

Comment on T-SQL Tuesday Invitation #182 – Integrity by Hugo Kornelis

Hugo Kornelis — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:24:03 +0000

I’m sorry. I think I’m too late. But if you want to read it anyway, here’s the link:
https://sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/2025/01/t-sql-tuesday-182-integrity/

Comment on T-SQL Tuesday Invitation #182 – Integrity by Shane O'Neill

Shane O'Neill — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:26:02 +0000

Thanks for hosting Rob, here’s my link: https://nocolumnname.blog/2025/01/14/t-sql-tuesday-182-integrity/

Comment on T-SQL Tuesday Invitation #182 – Integrity by Jeff Mlakar

Jeff Mlakar — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:48:22 +0000

Rob – thanks for hosting. Here’s mine: https://www.mlakartechtalk.com/integrity-database-corruption/

Comment on T-SQL Tuesday Invitation #182 – Integrity by Chad Callihan

Chad Callihan — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:34:33 +0000

Thanks for hosting! My post is here https://callihandata.com/2025/01/14/t-sql-tuesday-182-integrity/

Comment on T-SQL Tuesday Invitation #182 – Integrity by Eugene Meidinger

Eugene Meidinger — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:37:29 +0000

I wrote this before the announcement but I think it fits perfectly!
https://www.sqlgene.com/2025/01/01/the-fraught-ethics-around-ai-chatgpt-and-power-bi/