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
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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
2,270 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)
3,512 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
781 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)
2,119 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)
2,695 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
791 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
1,177 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
987 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
1,098 reads
Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 7
By Zikato
A fugitive cyber-criminal, a wingsuit, and 24 million flight records. Somewhere between Doha and...
Do This Before You Contact Your SQL Server Consultant
Say you need outside help. You’ve exhausted all the things that you could do...
Microsoft MVP 2026: Ten Years on the Data Platform
I’m honored to announce that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the...
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BIT_COUNT() III
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
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