Tag Archives: Database Weekly

AI Concerns

Posted on April 22, 2023 by way0utwest

I hosted a webinar a few weeks ago about Artificial Intelligence and how it might affect data professionals. It was an interesting discussion with Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman and Brian Randell, with all of us having slightly different perspectives. Overall, we all … Continue reading →

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Has SQL Server Performance Improved?

Posted on April 1, 2023 by way0utwest

I saw a very interesting blog post this week from Brent Ozar that asked if SQL Server 2019 More CPU-Intensive Than SQL Server 2016? You can read the post, but a client was having CPU issues and thought everything between … Continue reading →

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The Top SQL Server Engine Errors

Posted on March 4, 2023 by way0utwest

For many of us, SQL Server just works. We might get some syntax errors if we mistype things, but for the most part, SQL Server runs smoothly in many environments. However, there are some common situations that do occur regularly, … Continue reading →

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Coding Magic Values

Posted on February 4, 2023 by way0utwest

It’s 2023. I would hope all software developers would learn that hard coding specific values in your system is more likely to cause issues than not. Across the years, we’ve learned not everything is installed on the c: drive, or … Continue reading →

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