2014-10-22
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Articles
Finding a table name from a page ID
Imagine you come to work in the morning and notice that some new rows have been entered into the msdb.dbo.suspect_pages table during the night. Usually the first thing you’re going to do is run DBCC CHECKDB, but if your database is a few TB, that could be several hours before you know where the problem is, and which table may have lost data. You want to find out which table is involved as soon as possible so you can explore your disaster recovery options.
2014-10-22
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Exploring Your SQL Server Databases with T-SQL
Scott Swanberg shares 38 scripts he uses time and time again for discovering more about database objects.
2014-10-21
11,293 reads
Survey on SSDT and Database Projects
Red Gate are developing new tools for users of SSDT and Database Projects in Visual Studio. If you use these technologies, help us make our tools ingeniously simple by completing this 10 minute survey.
2014-10-21
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2014-10-20
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SQLintersection & DEVintersection Conference Descends On Las Vegas November 10-13
DevIntersection and SQLIntersection conference will bring together experts from Microsoft, SQLSkills, .NET Rocks, and 90 industry gurus.
2014-10-20
274 reads
Starting as a SQL Server Business Intelligence Developer
Besides the technical skills required to be a proficient SQL Server business intelligence developer, there are numerous "soft" skills that can contribute to your success.
2014-10-20
9,505 reads
Drop and Re-Create All Foreign Key Constraints in SQL Server
Aaron Bertrand supplies a script which generates two separate sets of commands: one to drop all foreign key constraints, and one to create them again. These scripts are stored in a table so that, if you drop the constraints and then disaster of some kind strikes during the create, you still have everything handy and can troubleshoot if needed.
2014-10-17
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Troubleshoot SQL P2P replication doesn't replicate DDL schema change.
This article shows a problem with P2P replication doesn't replicate DDL schema changes and something you might want to check.
2014-10-16
2,069 reads
Set-based Constraint Violation Reporting in SQL Server
When you're importing data into an RDBMS in bulk and an exception condition is raised because of a constraint violation, you generally need to fix the problem with the data and try again. The error won't tell you which rows are causing the violation. What if you've thousands of rows to search when it happens? There are solutions, writes William Sisson.
2014-10-16
8,821 reads
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Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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