Source Control for the Reluctant DBA
This is the 2nd post in the series named SQL Server and Continuous Integration. The previous post explained the problems I...
2016-07-13
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This is the 2nd post in the series named SQL Server and Continuous Integration. The previous post explained the problems I...
2016-07-13
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This is the 1st in a series of posts on SQL Server and Continuous Integration. Some of the tools I’ll be...
2016-07-07
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Triggers can be very useful when you want to log changes to your data, but what if you’re only interested...
2016-06-22 (first published: 2016-06-16)
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I know it sounds a bit odd but DELETE statements really do ignore table constraints. Running the code below in...
2016-06-03 (first published: 2016-05-30)
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Last month I wrote a post titled Broken Left Join which covered an easy to make mistake that I see...
2016-05-26 (first published: 2016-05-18)
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This month Wendy Pastrick is the host for T-SQL Tuesday #78. This month we have to “learn something new and blog...
2016-05-19 (first published: 2016-05-10)
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The SQL Server team is implementing an Incremental Servicing Model (ISM) to deliver updates for SQL Server. This is basically a...
2016-04-25
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Here is a simple example of a LEFT JOIN that returns the sales stats for all employees under 21.
SELECT e.Name,...
2016-04-21
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The ALTER TABLE..SWITCH command allows you to almost instantly move large amounts of data from one table to another. It does...
2016-04-20 (first published: 2016-04-12)
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Last week I received an email from one of our sysadmins asking why one of our databases kept showing as...
2016-03-31 (first published: 2016-03-22)
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Today I was having a nice discussion with some colleagues about Fabric and pricing/licensing...
By Steve Jones
As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated...
By James Serra
Starting last week is a rollout of the public preview of a new and...
By Stewart "Arturius" Campbell
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Read Only Replica in SQL...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in...
I've had some backups of my encrypted databases failing with the error "BACKUP 'DBName'...
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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