Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On
The other day I was asked to provide the port number that a SQL Server instance was listening on. As...
2010-12-01
1,744 reads
Articles
SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #5: Setup Your Source Control With Help from PowerShell
MVP Allen White shows how he can use Powershell to setup SQL Source Control from Red Gate Software on Nov 18, 2010.
2010-11-30 (first published: 2010-11-10)
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Determining An Enterprise Execution Policy Setting
Windows PowerShell has the concept of execution policy that determines in which cases script and configuration files are able to...
2010-11-30
1,310 reads
Troubleshoot Database Concurrency in SQL Server with sp_locks
sp_locks is a useful tool which can help a DBA in detecting and troubleshooting blocking and concurrency scenarios. This article demonstrates a worked example of using sp_locks to troubleshoot a database concurrency issue.
2010-11-30
3,539 reads
Analyzing Product Growth with the Management Data Warehouse
This article presents a case study of using the Management Data Warehouse feature in SQL Server 2008 to analyze disk usage trends by product.
2010-11-29
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TSQL Challenge 44 – Identify products that belong to each unique color
The first part of your job is to identify the unique color combinations of products and the second part is to identify the products that have the given color combination.
2010-11-29
1,362 reads
Custom sp_start_job to delay next task until SQL Agent Job has completed
The system stored procedure sp_start_job is a very useful T-SQL command that starts a SQL Agent job. The problem with this is that it starts the job and it doesn't wait until the job is finished and sometimes I want to start a job and wait until the job is finished and move on to another job or task that depends on the result of the previous job.
2010-11-29
3,405 reads
SQL Saturday #61 - DC
A day of free training near Washington DC in December. Come and learn how more about SQL Server.
2010-11-29 (first published: 2010-11-23)
1,920 reads
An Example of Test-Driven Development, Part 5
The fifth installment of this fantastic series by MVP Andy Leonard looks at database versioning. Be sure to read this one to continue learning more about TDD.
2010-11-26 (first published: 2009-08-20)
10,346 reads
Implicit Permissions Due to SQL Server Database Roles
I have audited for permissions on my databases because users seem to be accessing the tables, but I don't see permissions which give them such rights. I've gone through every Windows group that has access to my SQL Server and into the database, but with no success. How are the users accessing these tables?
2010-11-26
3,697 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
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it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
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I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
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Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
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