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Backup to the right location, by default

How do you configure where your database backups are created? Do you have problems updating all of your backup jobs if the backup location needs to change? See how you can make use of Windows settings and a few lines of simple TSQL to have total control over where you database backups are created.

2014-01-30

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Getting Starting with Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server – Part 1

Starting with SQL Server 2008, two different in-built mechanisms identify DML changes at the source table so that only changed data sets can be considered for data pulled from the source table to load into the data warehouse. These two in-built mechanisms are Change Data Capture (CDC) and Change Tracking (CT).

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2014-01-29

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Adding new column with DEFAULT

Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test;
CREATE TABLE #test (id INT)
INSERT INTO #test (id)
SELECT *
  FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs
;

ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0;
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UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1
UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2

INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4)

SELECT COUNT(*)
  FROM #test AS t
 WHERE flag = 0
 

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