John Sansom

John Sansom (Blog | Twitter) is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) of SQL Server and publisher of the free SQL community ebook DBA JumpStart, an inspiring collection of advice for Data Professionals, written by 20 SQL Server experts. Awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor(MCC) award, John is a prolific blogger and can be found regularly writing about SQL Server and Professional Development over at www.johnsansom.com.

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Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees

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TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....

Becoming a creator, my website experience

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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...

T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement

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It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...

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Collecting active node hostname at centralized location

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So folks we have around 30/40 sql server failover cluster insatnce with each having...

Beginner in sql server

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Hello, How to add a UNIX_TIMESTAMP at my publish_date please CREATE TABLE [dbo].[latest_info]( [id]...

fast farward curson vs while loop on @table

By rajemessage 14195

hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...

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Question of the Day

Getting the Indexed Columns

I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned? 

SELECT   
    INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail')

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