How To: Automate Continuous SQLServer Activity with Stored Procedures and Powershell Jobs

The Goal
It’s often useful to be able to run a bunch of stored procedures in the background over a period...

Internals Matter: Why You Should Check Your Page Verify Settings, and I Should Go to Masters Immersion Training (SQL Skills Contest Entry)

This post is about two things:

1) Your Page Verification Settings are Critical
You should confirm you are running with the correct...

Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans

Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...

Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition

Corruption is so ugly it gets a lolworm instead of a lolcat.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start:

This Post...

Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans

Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...

Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME

Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...

Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME

Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...

Filling in Data Potholes Redux: Tally Tables vs CTEs

In A Previous Installment
Re-Ducks
… our heroine (that’s me) rediscovered CTEs, specifically in the recursive style. That was in my post...

Why I’m All For 24HOP Showcasing 24 Women Speakers

This is not the HOP you are looking for.
I’ve been thinking about the upcoming 24HOP event planned for March 15...

Filling in Data Potholes with Recursive CTEs

Data: it can break your foot.
Imagine that you are writing a script that looks at data grouped by the minute....