Dr. Dallas Snider, a MSSQLTips author, mentioned that SQL Server RAND() function could generate random values uniformly distributed from 0 through 1, exclusive. He generated random numbers from the normal distribution with a specific mean and standard deviation.
2020-02-17
Alex Chamchourine explains how he managed to find a row in a billion row table without an index.
2020-02-14
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You need to make sure that nobody tampers with your production databases, or really any databases outside Development. Even if you weren't of a nervous disposition, you'd want to know if a database was stopped or removed. You'd also be intrigued by the sudden unrehearsed addition of a database to a production server.
2020-02-14
As DBAs, we all know how important it is to check all of the SQL Server databases under our care for potential corruption issues. However, to accomplish that, we might not have the time to do any of the following:
2020-02-14
Problem The usage of a collection of integers in some scenarios is considered to be optimal because of the overhead involved by the creation of another user table used just to store numbers, which is the most common solution. What are collections of integers? They are lists or arrays consisting of integers. The number of […]
2020-02-13
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In the second article of this series, Carlos Robles explains how to manage Docker images and containers.
2020-02-13
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2020-02-13 (first published: 2020-01-28)
In this two-part tip, we are created a metadata-driven pipeline which will copy multiple flat files from Azure blob storage to an Azure SQL Database. The flat files can have different delimiters and are stored in different folders and there are multiple destination tables as well.
2020-02-12
2020-02-11
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I recently came across an issue in a SQL Server Availability Group scenario where queries against a heavily-used queue table were taking longer and longer over time.
2020-02-11
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If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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