Mail Fails with SQLCMD Error
I had a SQL Server job that kept failing with sqlcmd error and this describes how I resolved it.
2015-03-19
10,203 reads
Articles
How to get Database Design Horribly Wrong
Database Design is one of those tasks where you have to carefully get all the major aspects right. If you mess-up just one of these, it can all go horribly wrong. So what are these aspects that can ruin database design, and how can you get them right? Robert Sheldon explains.
2015-03-19
17,062 reads
SQL Saturday #364 - Boston, MA
SQL Saturday is coming to Boston on April 18th 2015. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking, and listen to great speakers like Grant Fritchey, Brent Ozar, and Andy Leonard. Register while space is available.
2015-03-19
7,512 reads
Using the ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS Operators
Greg Larsen discusses the ROLLUP, CUBE and GROUPING SETS operators. These operators are used with the GROUP BY clause and allow you to create subtotals, grand totals and superset of subtotals. Read on to find out more about these additional GROUP BY operators.
2015-03-18
11,340 reads
What is Behaviour Driven (Database) Development?
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is not always clearly understood, and the term is particularly unfamiliar in database circles. Seb Rose introduces us to the fundamentals of BDD, and make some suggestions for how it might be relevant to database development.
2015-03-17
8,807 reads
Converting to data-driven code
How converting extensive, repetitive code to a data-driven approach resolved a maintenance headache and helped identify bugs
2015-03-16
6,679 reads
Calculate the Statistical Mode in SQL Server using T-SQL
Next to the average and the median, there is another statistical value that you can calculate over a set: the mode. This is the value that appears the most often in the set. The average and the median are straight forward to calculate with T-SQL in SQL Server, but how can we determine the mode using T-SQL?
2015-03-16
6,205 reads
SQL Saturday #387 - Madison, WI
SQL Saturday is coming to Madison, Wisconsin on April 11th 2015. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking and hear expert speakers like David Klee, Wendy Pastrick, and Jes Borland. Register while space is available.
2015-03-16
5,830 reads
Setting Different Colors for Connections in SSMS
Learn how to set colors for different connections in SSMS.
2015-03-13 (first published: 2013-09-17)
33,386 reads
Defusing Database Time Bombs: Avoiding the Need to Refactor Databases
Where applications are evolved by gradually molding them to a growing understanding of the business domain, this presents great challenges to database development. If databases are designed too loosely, and initial errors are allowed to fester, the results become harder and harder to refactor until eventually they constitute a database time bomb. Thomas LeBlanc describes how to avoid a few basic, but very common, database time bombs.
2015-03-13
9,069 reads
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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