Counting more efficiently
Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a post called “Bad habits : Counting rows the hard way.” In that post, I talked about how we can use SQL Server’s metadata to instantly retrieve the row count for a table.
2024-01-12
Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a post called “Bad habits : Counting rows the hard way.” In that post, I talked about how we can use SQL Server’s metadata to instantly retrieve the row count for a table.
2024-01-12
But nowadays, most services are in the cloud. They're not on your servers; they're somewhere else. With most software-as-a-service (SAAS) offerings, you don't have many options to configure connectivity. What if you need data from one SaaS service into another?
2024-01-10
This guide helps you get started on troubleshooting some of the common issues in AlwaysOn Availability Groups and monitoring AlwaysOn Availability Groups. It is intended to provide original content as well as a landing page of useful information that is already published elsewhere.
2024-01-09 (first published: 2021-08-25)
The use of statistics in SQL Server is tightly embedded in the query optimizer and query processor. The creation and maintenance of statistics is usually handled by the SQL Server engine, though many DBAs and developers know that periodically we might need to update those statistics to ensure good performance of queries. SQL Server 2019 gives us more options.
2024-01-09 (first published: 2019-04-01)
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This Data Saturday Event is being jointly developed by the Albuquerque Data Platform Users Group, Arizona Data Platform Users Group, and the Santa Fe Data Platform Users Groups. This event will include sessions on many Microsoft Data Platform related topics. Join us on May 15, 2021.
2024-01-09 (first published: 2021-05-14)
Learn about best practices for developing SSIS packages that you want to execute from SQL Server Agent and the steps to follow.
2024-01-09 (first published: 2020-12-01)
Our annual mental health and wellness day is slated to happen on 8th April 2022. We have a fantastic lineup,schedule as below. For more details on speakers and sessions refer to our blog post here.
2024-01-09 (first published: 2022-04-08)
SQL Server post migration step is very crucial for reconciling any data accuracy and completeness, as well as uncover performance issues with the workload.
2024-01-09 (first published: 2022-10-10)
In this article, we are going to learn the basics of SQL unit testing and how to write a SQL unit test through the tSQLt framework.
2024-01-09 (first published: 2023-09-08)
In this article, learn how to control access levels to various data and parts of Power BI reports using row-level security as well as column and object-level security.
2024-01-09 (first published: 2023-06-19)
By James Serra
(Shameless plug: The price of my book “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern...
By Steve Jones
I was working with a customer and discussing how to do error handling. This...
By DataOnWheels
The 14th annual Ability Summit is a global event that I attended a few...
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I have a small test sandbox database on an instance with default master, model, msdb, and tempdb settings. The database has these files:I now run this command:
DBCC CLONEDATABASE(sandbox, sandbox_clone); GOWhen I examine the database file properties, what do they show? See possible answers