Randomizing Result Sets with NEWID
Seth Delconte brings us a technique to solve a common request. Using the NEWID function to return a random record from a result set.
2010-03-01
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Articles
IntelliSense Slow to Refresh
IntelliSense in SQL Server 2008 can sometimes not be very intelligent. It’s there to help you can sometimes cause more...
2010-03-01
3,579 reads
Mission Critical: SQL Server 2008 General Maintenance
This document contains steps that will assist you in the day-to-day SQL Server 2008 RTM Enterprise Edition (non-clustered) operations. It defines the basics of standard maintenance and checks for a single Instance of SQL Server 2008, and should be used as a starting point.
2010-03-01
3,120 reads
Using a Parent Child Hierarchy in SQL Server to Implement a Custom Security Scheme
I have a requirement to implement a custom security scheme where roles and the user's place in the organization hierarchy are used to determine which customers a user can access. In particular the requirements are that a sales person can only access their customers and any other role can access any customer in their level of the organization hierarchy and below. We have a simple hierarchy that is made up of regions and offices. Can you provide us with an example of how to do this?
2010-03-01
3,410 reads
Exceptional PowerShell DBA Pt 3 - Collation and Fragmentation
In this final look into his everyday essentials, Laerte Junior provides some useful scripts for the DBA that use an alternative way of error-logging. He shows how to use a PowerShell script to check and, if necessary, to defragment your indexes, write data to a SQL Server table, and change the collation for a table. Being an exceptional DBA just got a little easier.
2010-02-26
2,552 reads
Experiments with Data Compression in SQL Server 2008
Data compression is an Enterprise Edition only feature that was added in SQL Server 2008. It allows you to use...
2010-02-26
2,250 reads
SQLSaturday Acquired by PASS – Reactions
The Announcement
On February 2nd, PASS (@sqlpass), here, and Andy Warren (@sqlandy), here, announced ownership of the SQLSaturday franchise brand was transferred...
2010-02-26
563 reads
Upgrading Replication from SQL Server 2000 32-Bit to SQL Server 2008 64-Bit without re-initialization
In this article we summarized the experiences we gathered during the planning and upgrade of a customer's project. The customer is one of the largest retail shops in its area. Their architecture is made up of a main server, which is located at headquarters and hosts several hundred publications containing over a thousand articles. Regional stores are located all over the country acting as subscribers for the publications hosted on the main server. Based on the business needs and infrastructure limitations the customer set the following goals for the project:
2010-02-26
2,504 reads
Managing Analysis Services Deployment - Part 4
Part 4 of this series, Shahfaisal Muhammed brings another method of deploying your SSAS projects to a new server: the synchronize database method. The rest of the series covers other methods.
2010-02-25
3,512 reads
Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
In my last post, I noted that one of the biggest differences between ISNULL and COALESCE was the fact that...
2010-02-25
1,118 reads
Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
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If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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