Compare Patch levels across all installed sql instances
This script allows you to compare patch levels across instances.
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-21)
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This script allows you to compare patch levels across instances.
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-21)
1,143 reads
Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? Some people take that approach to maintenance windows, but that isn't permissible in the cloud.
2021-04-05
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You will see here a way to handle history tables. This way only takes into account Date-based data cleanup but is easily generalizable.
2017-07-03 (first published: 2015-09-28)
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2015-10-19 (first published: 2013-08-30)
4,363 reads
Alex Kuznetsov's team of developers are geared to doing rapid development of database applications in a busy corporate setting, yet take considerable time over meticulous database design, extensive constraints, automated tests, error logs, and defensive coding. Why? Because it cuts down on the subsequent need for maintenance.
2012-07-23
3,977 reads
Tells you how much the databases are using the space on disk taking in account the free space at the end of the database.
2014-01-08 (first published: 2012-05-04)
3,950 reads
Auto compression of index, if index includes > 1 million rows.
2012-04-11 (first published: 2012-03-19)
906 reads
This script lets you to know how much disk space will be left after the next database grow taking in account the free space left in the database.
2012-05-08 (first published: 2011-09-13)
1,004 reads
I have a database which has several tables that have very heavy write operations. These table are very large and some are over a hundred gigabytes. I noticed performance of this database is getting slower and after some investigation we suspect that the Auto Update Statistics function is causing a performance degradation.
2011-02-25
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2009-11-04
3,447 reads
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Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers