PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter presents Characteristics of a Great Relational Database
On Thursday October 20th ,MVP Louis Davidson will discuss the why normalized databases are the most important part of query tuning
2011-10-20
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Articles
Pascals Triangle, Home Work and Root Cause Analysis
A lively comparison of Pascal's triangle to root cause analysis from David Poole.
2011-10-19
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Color Coding Your SQL Server Connections
Do you find yourself managing lots of SQL Server instances? If so you might find you are connected to many different instances and have numerous query windows open that are connected to different instances. When you have lots of query windows open, do you sometimes find it confusing to know the instance in which your query window is connected? Color-coding your connections can help you manage complicated setups.
2011-10-19
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PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter presents Characteristics of a Great Relational Database
On Thursday October 20th, MVP Louis Davidson will discuss the why normalized databases are the most important part of query tuning.
2011-10-19
1,302 reads
Calculating Stock Returns Using the ROW_NUMBER function and CTEs
In finance, when pricing data isn't available on last day of week, month or year, calculating returns is tricky. This article addresses the issue.
2011-10-18
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2011-10-18 (first published: 2009-12-23)
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Maximizing SQL Server Throughput with RSS Tuning
Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) was introduced in Windows 2003 to improve Windows scalability to handle heavy network traffic, which is typically the case for SQL Server OLTP workload. This post helps you get the most out of the feature.
2011-10-18
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TSQL Challenge 67 - Find the longest sequence of alphabets in a string
This challenge invites you to identify the largest sequence of alphabets from a string.
2011-10-17
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Mimicking Network Databases in SQL
Unlike the hierarchical database model, which created a tree structure in which to store data, the network model formed a generalized 'graph' structure that describes the relationships between the nodes. Nowadays, the relational model is used to solve the problems for which the network model was created, but the old 'network' solutions are still being implemented by programmers, even when they are less effective.
2011-10-17
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Webinar: Setting up a SQL Server sandbox development environment
Do you need to setup a SQL Server development environment in short order? Are you familiar with the options available? Are they all laborious? Are you facing security and data privacy issues? Do you have sufficient storage? Attend this information-packed session to learn about the best ways to build, manage and protect your sandbox development environment.
2011-10-17
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers