The illogical longing for scarcity
This whole post is an off-topic shower-thought type of post, and has nothing to do with SQL Server. But as a fellow technologist, I think you might enjoy it anyway. I started thinking about nostalgia...
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Off topic: My thoughts on value-based pricing
This is a topic that I’ve been passionate about for many years. I had a discussion with someone today that inspired me to actually write an article about it. So many of my consulting industry...
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JSON indexes in SQL Server: First impressions
At the November announcement of SQL Server 2025, a ton of cool new features were unveiled. It’s obviously very heavy on AI and Fabric, but those are the times we live in. If you squint a little,...
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The best ten years for movies were 1994-2003, and I have proof
Stay with me. This is not clickbait! I made you a script so you can create your own SQL Server database using the public IMDB dataset. All you need is a SQL Server 2022, Powershell 7, and a little...
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Collect and report session feedback for your Data/SQL Saturday event!
In case you missed it, I designed a solution last year to collect session feedback for my annual Data Saturday Stockholm event, and I made this solution publicly available to anyone who runs a similar...
View ArticleDynamically updating Azure Network Security Groups
Today’s post is not about SQL Server, but if you’re working in Azure from a dynamic IP address, you might still find it useful. Recently, my home ISP has started changing my public IP address. This...
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How to use Cloudflare R2 for SQL Server backups
R2 is Cloudflare’s own implementation of AWS S3 storage, with some big benefits – one of them being no egress fees, which is great if you want to publish or distribute a lot of data (like I did with...
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T-SQL math patterns
As part of spending waaaaaay to much time trying to solve the 2023 Advent of Code challenges, I came across multiple instances where I had to dust off some old math that I hadn’t paid attention to...
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How to join overlapping date ranges
You can get into a situation where you have two tables with values associated with date ranges. What’s worse, those date ranges don’t necessarily have to align, which can make joining them a seemingly...
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Indexing for substring search
A question from a client got me thinking. Relational databases (at least the ones I know and love) can’t really index for queries that use LIKE queries for a substring of a column value. If you want...
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The quirky and wonderful self-join optimization
This blog post started as a “what if” contemplation in my head: Suppose you have a reasonably large table with a clustered index and a number of non-clustered indexes. If your WHERE clause filters by...
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A quick look at SQL Server UTF-8 collations
A client asked me about SQL Server collations, and if they should consider the new UTF8 collations (new since SQL Server 2019). I tried to hide my blank stare of ignorance, and promised them I’d look...
View ArticleI ❤️ QUOTENAME()
An underrated, and perhaps less well-known T-SQL function is QUOTENAME(). If you haven’t heard of it, chances are that it could do wonders for your dynamic SQL scripts. To quickly recap quoting,...
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The best ten years for movies were 1994-2003, and I have proof
Stay with me. This is not clickbait! I made you a script so you can create your own SQL Server database using the public IMDB dataset. All you need is a SQL Server 2022, Powershell 7, and a little...
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Collect and report session feedback for your Data/SQL Saturday event!
In case you missed it, I designed a solution last year to collect session feedback for my annual Data Saturday Stockholm event, and I made this solution publicly available to anyone who runs a similar...
View ArticleDynamically updating Azure Network Security Groups
Today’s post is not about SQL Server, but if you’re working in Azure from a dynamic IP address, you might still find it useful. Recently, my home ISP has started changing my public IP address. This...
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How to use Cloudflare R2 for SQL Server backups
R2 is Cloudflare’s own implementation of AWS S3 storage, with some big benefits – one of them being no egress fees, which is great if you want to publish or distribute a lot of data (like I did with...
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T-SQL math patterns
As part of spending waaaaaay to much time trying to solve the 2023 Advent of Code challenges, I came across multiple instances where I had to dust off some old math that I hadn’t paid attention to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to join overlapping date ranges
You can get into a situation where you have two tables with values associated with date ranges. What’s worse, those date ranges don’t necessarily have to align, which can make joining them a seemingly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Indexing for substring search
A question from a client got me thinking. Relational databases (at least the ones I know and love) can’t really index for queries that use LIKE queries for a substring of a column value. If you want...
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