SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Another fun article for America's Independence Day using SQL Server's spatial features.
2026-07-03
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Another fun article for America's Independence Day using SQL Server's spatial features.
2026-07-03
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Taking SQL art from shamrocks and Easter eggs to something your DBA manager might actually care about. If you've been following my SQL spatial art series — shamrocks, Easter eggs, Christmas trees — you'll know I have a habit of finding increasingly creative misuses for SQL Server's geometry data type. Most of them have been […]
2026-06-12
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What a DBA team actually deals with There are many issues a DBA team faces, from servers going down to login access not being requested on time. These are not glamorous problems, but they are the problems that stop everyone else doing their jobs. In a modern environment you would expect a lot of the […]
2026-04-13
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2026-04-10
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Learn how you can add transactional replication to an AG to move data to an Azure SQL Database.
2026-03-20
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Last time we turned SQL Server into a Christmas tree. Every year around St Patrick's Day I find myself doing something I can't fully justify. This year that thing was using SQL Server's spatial viewer to draw a shamrock and a pint of Guinness. Hope you have a happy St Patrick's Day and a few […]
2026-03-16
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This article presents a way to check and validate input before using it in your dynamic SQL queries to prevent SQL Injection problems.
2026-03-02
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A little Christmas fun for you using the spatial features in SQL Server and SSMS.
2025-12-24
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Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
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