SQL Homework – July 2017
For years Russ Thomas (b/t) has done a Monthly DBA Challenge and in fact I’ve used it as insperation a...
2017-07-03
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Kenneth Fisher
Temp table quiz
Brent Ozar (b/t) posted a pop quiz on twitter earlier today.
Go ahead and give it a shot .. I’ll wait.
So?...
2017-06-26
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Turning ANSI_PADDING off, and why you shouldn’t
I ran into an interesting error the other day while doing a partition switch.
Partition switch failed because : column ‘xyz’...
2017-06-26 (first published: 2017-06-15)
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Dynamically generate the command line DMA statement for each database
If you are upgrading your instance to 2016 (or 2017 soon) then you probably are going to want to run...
2017-06-21
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Adding Identity to an existing column
A friend had an interesting problem today. A really big table (multiple millions of rows) and no primary key. He...
2017-06-19
1,955 reads
SQL Crossword
I thought I’d do another crossword. Enjoy! If you need any help with it feel free to let me know...
2017-06-16 (first published: 2017-05-31)
2,806 reads
Buzzword Bingo
Grant Fritchey (b/t) is our host for T-SQL Tuesday this month and surprise surprise he’d like to talk about DEVOPS....
2017-06-13
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Running multiple queries at the same time.
I read an interesting question today. Someone wanted to be able to run the same stored procedure multiple times, at...
2017-06-08 (first published: 2017-05-24)
9,715 reads
UDP vs TCP
If you’ve worked much with named instances you’ve probably had to deal with the question “What port is that instance...
2017-06-07
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Backup to NUL
Yes, I spelled that correctly. NUL not NULL. NUL is basically a location you can send a backup to. In...
2017-06-05
5,923 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers