2011-10-25 (first published: 2010-01-06)
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Articles
Using TOP To Rank Columns In a Table
This article covers the use of the TOP clause to select data from a table based on the TOP n columns in a table.
2011-10-25
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Using PowerShell for SQL Server Transaction Log Backups
How can I use PowerShell to do a Transaction Log backup for SQL Server databases? In this tip we look at an alternative way of creating transaction log backups using a PowerShell script.
2011-10-25
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Update multiple servers in a single bound
Learn how you can update multiple servers in a single bound with this technique from Kimberly Killian.
2011-10-24
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SQL in the City - LA
Come to SQL in the City, Friday Oct 28, in Los Angeles and meet Grant Fritchey, Brad McGehee and Steve Jones among others. A day of free training for SQL Server professionals.
2011-10-24 (first published: 2011-10-21)
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SQL# (SQLsharp): A Review
Only the brave, and foolhardy, write production CLR routines if you can get the functionality already-written and tested. Whether you’re a DBA or developer, there are plenty of times when a CLR routine will save a lot of time, and occasionally provide new functionality.
2011-10-24
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Diagnosing and Resolving Spinlock Contention on SQL Server
This paper describes how to identify and resolve spinlock contention issues observed when running SQL Server 2008 applications on high concurrency systems with certain workloads.
2011-10-21
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Extract multiple files with a MultiFlatFileConnection data flow task
A data flow task generated by the SSIS Import and Export Wizard can be configured to extract data from multiple files by changing the default connection manager to a MultiFlatFileConnection.
2011-10-20
4,921 reads
Raw Materials - Og, Sumerian DBA
A tale from the days when civilization was young and everything was harder than it is now.
2011-10-20 (first published: 2009-12-30)
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Auditing DDL Changes in SQL Server databases
Even where Source Control isn't being used by developers, it is still possible to automate the process of tracking the changes being made to a database and put those into Source Control, in order to track what changed and when. You can even get an email alert when it happens. With suitable scripting, you can even do it if you don't have direct access to the live database. Grant shows how easy this is with SQL Compare.
2011-10-20
2,823 reads
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Question of the Day
Getting the Average
I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.
salesperson commission Brian 12 Brian 16 Andy 7 Andy 14 Andy 21 Steve 20 Steve NULLAll the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
, AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
FROM commission
GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve? See possible answers