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...
2011-03-02
1,118 reads
Kendra Little
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...
2011-01-25
1,261 reads
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...
2011-01-25
1,467 reads
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...
2011-01-24
2,613 reads
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...
2011-01-21
1,889 reads
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...
2011-01-12
2,034 reads
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...
2011-01-06
2,335 reads
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...
2011-01-04
1,115 reads
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...
2010-12-27
959 reads
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....
2010-12-23
1,142 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers