This article dives into a fun (and interesting!) strategy for widening fixed-width columns in SQL Server, to reduce downtime, risk, and runtime at the time when a column’s data type needs to be changed.
2025-09-12
A list of all builds for SQL Server 2016. Updated with CU2 for SP2 and CU10 for SP1.
2025-09-10 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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2025-09-10 (first published: 2018-12-20)
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This is a list of the builds for SQL Server 2022. There are other build lists available here. A list of all the builds that I can find and install on my Build VM. If you find a build not listed here, please let the webmaster know (webmaster at sqlservercentral.com). All builds are listed in reverse […]
2025-09-10 (first published: 2022-09-01)
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I recently resolved an issue where a query pulling data from the last 30 days would time out due to the table’s size and the lack of a supporting index. Creating a supporting index is possible, but not ideal; it will be very large and may not be useful for most queries and use cases. I wonder how I could implement a filtered index that follows time and is always limited to the last n days.
2025-09-10
This article looks at using the FP-Growth algorithm from Python to mine data in SQL Server.
2025-09-08
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Introduced in SQL Server 2025 CTP 1.3, the PRODUCT() function acts similarly to SUM(), but multiplies values rather than adds them. It is an aggregate function in SQL Server and therefore operates on a data set, rather than on scalar values.
2025-09-08
This article shows how you can easily create connections in your Power BI workspace that use Identity Authentication to connect to your data.
2025-09-05
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The advantage of using triggers is that the same processing can occur regardless of where or how the data has been inserted, updated or deleted. In this article, we look at several examples of where and why triggers could be useful along with an example use case.
2025-09-05
By Steve Jones
I saw an article recently about implicit transactions and coincidentally, I had a friend...
By Kevin3NF
The 10-Minute Outside-In Triage Don’t Blame SQL First It’s 9:05 AM and your helpdesk...
By Steve Jones
I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking,...
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I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers