Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Basic Copy-Item cmdletIf you have used some PowerShell, you are probably familiar with Copy-Item...
2023-08-12
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A high level view of the most costly queries by CPU
A high level view of the most costly queries by CPU
I want to see at a high level i.e at batch or stored procedure level, not at the individual...
2023-07-31 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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Wait a minute, CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE indexes are not ordered?
Just to reiterate what's in the title of this post, what I mean is that the CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE indexes are not ordered, while NONCLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE created indexes are on...
2023-07-24 (first published: 2023-07-05)
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Tracking the Inaccurate Cardinality Estimates
Tracking the Inaccurate Cardinality Estimates
When it comes to query performance, lately the Cardinality Estimates seems to have been a hot topic with each new release of SQL...
2023-07-20 (first published: 2023-07-19)
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Reading and searching events inside the SQL Server default trace
Note: SQL Trace and SQL Server Profiler are deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. The replacement technology for them is Extended Events. To Learn More: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/sql-trace/sql-trace?view=sql-server-ver16SQL Server...
2023-07-19 (first published: 2023-07-06)
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A Barebone Script To Generate SQL Script to Create Synonyms
A Barebone Script To Generate SQL Script to Create Synonyms
This stored procedure can be used to generate a SQL script to create synonyms for all tables in...
2023-07-12 (first published: 2023-07-10)
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Generate SQL Script to Allow or Disallow Access To All Data
I had a requirement to temporarily prevent access, read or write, to a particular database for all users except 2 users. There were hundreds of SQL Logins with access...
2023-07-12 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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Query the fully qualified connection string for the AlwaysOn Connection
While we do maintain an exact inventory of sql servers and their configuration, its too numerous and I often find myself in a need to look up AG connection...
2023-07-10
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List Top Tables in SQL Server Database by Size
There are countless queries you can find on internet to get list of tables, size of database, tables, indexes etc... Here is a one that I have used for...
2023-06-20
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What Do You Look for in an Execution Plan?
Say, you have a query having performance issues and you decide to look it's graphical execution plan in SSMS (or other tools). If you are lucky, right off the...
2023-06-20 (first published: 2023-06-19)
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Question of the Day
Fun with JSON I
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers