Tag: SQL
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Consistency is the Key to Success
There is little worse than having to figure out which of several different ways to do something previous employees decided to do things. Over the last week, I began managing several SQL Servers as the DBA for a client. No worries there – it’s what I do. I began reviewing the first SQL Server. Backups…
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Comparing Email Configuration in SQL Server and Snowflake
Today, I want to talk about all the effort that goes into setting up the ability to email in SQL Server and Snowflake. First is our old friend – SQL Server. I’ll leave this one to the experts at Microsoft. As has been the case over the last few years, they have some great documentation…
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Getting New and Old Columns to a Table
In my last post, we worked out how to change the data type of a field if it already existed and was found to need changing. This time, I want to add a fresh, new column to an existing table. In SQL Server, I would be doing something like the following. This works great if…
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Odd things found when working with data
Sometimes, you’ll find all sorts of craziness when you’re working with data. Especially if you don’t expect there to be any craziness. Let me show you what I mean by a story of what I had happen just this week. In mapping some data from one database to another, I was asked to do the…
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That’s Just NOT Right
Today, I want to talk about the keyword NOT in SQL Server. It can be your friend or your worst enemy depending upon how you use it. Let’s delve into some examples of what I’m talking about and how it’s easy for people to mess it up. Let’s say we have a table named DataTable.…
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Scrutinizing the Data in All of our tables
Today, I was working with SQL Server to get row counts from several tables so I thought I’d be smart and work with some functions in SQL Server to make it smarter / easier. Now, if I am truly only getting “straight” row counts from these tables, I would be able to create a query…
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Removing Objects Is Not So Simple
When you’re working between SQL Server and Snowflake, there can be a lot of crossover that may make you forget what system you’re working in. Sometimes it’s close, but not close enough. Today, let’s go over something that should be rather simple – removing old objects that we shouldn’t need any longer. In SQL Server,…
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Walking Through Advent of Code Day 9 Part 2
Welcome back after a long, much-needed break! Hopefully, you’ve had time to reenergize and are now ready to start 2024 with a bang! Thankfully, the elves were semi-nice to us for part 2 and only slightly changed their requests and wanted us to find the first number in the solution instead of the last. If…
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Walking Through Advent of Code Day 9
And so day 9 begins. Today, our elves are working hard on having us come up with the next number in a sequence. Thankfully, they do give us a few good examples to walk through on how they would like us to do it. And with that, it’s off to the races! As always, we…
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Walking Through Advent of Code Day 8 Part 2
With Day 8 part 1 being all about traversing tables, I’m sure our little friends the elves will find a new way to make this harder for us. First, we find out that we’re now starting with multiple positions – anything that ends with an A – and finishing anywhere that ends in a Z.…