Has SQL Server Performance Improved?
This week Steve found a question of whether SQL Server 2019 uses more CPU than 2016.
Building a Better Profile
Steve thinks building a brand is important in today's competitive world of job seekers.
Shrink Database Log Files One by One
Learn how you can shrink your transaction log files serially, one by one.
Snowflake Temporary Tables vs. Transient Tables
When working with Snowflake, it is important to understand the different types of tables available and when to use each one. In this tutorial, we will compare Snowflake temporary and transient tables, highlight their similarities and differences, and provide examples of when to use each type of table.
Being Responsible for Data
There is an interesting court case on who is responsible for the data being posted on the Internet. Steve has a few thoughts today.
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Groups and FCIs Part 1
Learn how to get a Failover Cluster Instance set up and configured with Windows and SQL Server. This is part of a series showing how to combine a Failover Cluster Instance of SQL Server with an AlwaysOn availability group.
Piping, Filtering and Using Flyway Output in PowerShell
Flyway's output is often overwhelmed with verbose messages, most of which we can ignore but some of which provide vital warnings about failed compilations, or useful details about what a migration or callback did. I'll show how to use some pipeline-aware PowerShell functions to filter out and save the bits we want and pass the results along in a form that is useful to the next process in the pipeline.
Using TOP clause in a SELECT statement
There might be a time when you might want to return just a few rows of a result set, instead of the complete set. This might be useful if you want to just validate a selection criteria or a few rows of data. For whatever the reason the TOP clause can be used to return a specific number or a percentage of rows from a result set. This article will cover using the TOP clause in a SELECT statement and how it can be used to return a partial set of records.
Passing parameters to query without TVFs
This article looks at an interesting way to help your users get filtered data from a TVF instead of using a stored procedure or specialized view.
Blogs
Truncating very large transaction log in full recovery mode
By SQLPals
While I always configure transaction log backups for every database in non-simple recovery model,...
Autonomous Driving Around London
By Steve Jones
There’s a video of Bill Gates taking a drive in an autonomous car around...
Best way to monitor high worker thread on SQL Server
It is common to see high worker count issue on the production server and...
Forums
Import DataBase from Access to SQL server 2014
Hi I want to import database form access to SQL server 2014 When adding...
Amazon Redshift Data warehouse setup and bring data from Apps to Data warehouse
We are setting up new data warehouse with Amazon Redshift and building integrations to...
Remove the Dynamic code from my SQL sproc
I have a stored procedure that was created to run dynamically. Other than me...
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