When I get stumped I ….
I work with a reasonably large team of DBAs. There are 9 of us and we support not only 70+...
2012-10-02
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Kenneth Fisher
DBMail on a cluster
I’ve always found clusters a pain in the neck. For my latest pain I just spent the last 2 days...
2012-09-26
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Using a TVP instead of Dynamic SQL to pass a list into a SP
A couple of days ago I read Steve Jones’ blog on creating a user defined table type. This reminded me...
2012-09-25
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Funny results from OPTIMIZE FOR AD HOC WORKLOADS
I recently turned on OPTIMIZE FOR AD HOC WORKLOADS for the first time on one of my servers. When I...
2012-09-18
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2012-09-13
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EXECUTE AS USER = ‘Somebody else’
As a database administrator I get lots of security requests. “Please grant me read authority on this table, write on that table,...
2012-09-10
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2012-09-07
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sp_helptext
My manager has been quietly laughing under his breath at me for years. Usually because I much prefer queries and...
2012-09-02
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At Startup SSMS setting
I came across this handy dandy little setting earlier this year. It was well hidden from me, by which I...
2012-08-27
660 reads
keyword DEFAULT
In 12 years of working with SQL it was only last year that I came across the keyword DEFAULT and...
2012-08-20
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers