T-SQL Tuesday #80 – SQL Birthday Present
It’s time for another round of the global blog party we call T-SQL Tuesday. This is T-SQL Tuesday #80 and...
2016-07-12
760 reads
Robert Davis
- Interests: Poker, computers, reading/writing horror fiction
Possible Infinite Recompile Was Detected for SQLHANDLE
On one of my SQL Server instances, I see a lot of these infinite recompile messages in the SQL log....
2016-07-01
2,213 reads
Return Max or Min Value of a Group of Columns as a Single Column
Recently, I needed a query to identify tables that developers had create as point-in-time backups of tables that were never...
2016-06-23 (first published: 2016-06-16)
3,510 reads
Return Max or Min Value of a Group of Columns as a Single Column
Recently, I needed a query to identify tables that developers had create as point-in-time backups of tables that were never...
2016-06-17
779 reads
AG Worker Thread Blocked by Log Backup
We have an internal monitoring query that checks for system threads that are blocked. Recently, we received an alert email...
2016-06-15 (first published: 2016-06-06)
2,115 reads
What has 2 Thumbs and Deleted a LUN with the Log File of a Production DB on it?
That’s right, I did it. I was deleting unused LUNs and the focus somehow jumped from the LUNs for the...
2016-06-08 (first published: 2016-06-01)
2,681 reads
Attendee Questions from My #24HoP Presentation
I want to once again thank everyone who attended my 24 Hours of PASS session last week. I especially appreciate...
2016-06-02
788 reads
What is the max/min size of a decimal data type?
Recently, I wrote a maintenance script to check every table in every database on our servers at work nightly and...
2016-05-31
1,173 reads
My 24 Hours of PASS Session Files
I was honored to be selected to join many other great speakers in presenting for the recent 24 Hours of...
2016-05-27
981 reads
Why I'm not attending PASS Summit 2016
I know there has been a lot of drama in the community recently, much of it centered around what people...
2016-05-27
1,093 reads
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Question of the Day
A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
SELECT '1' || '0'See possible answers