Do you use T-SQL debugging?
T-SQL debugging is not 100% in SQL Server. It has few bad drawbacks starting from difficulties when setting it up...
2011-07-13
1,214 reads
Danny Riebeek
- Interests: SQL Monitoring
- Website: https://www.sqltreeo.com
Copying parent-child rows and SQL Dependency Tracker
I was facing quite well-known issue today – I had to develop logic of duplicating (versioning) parent-child records. Because I was...
2011-07-12
2,101 reads
Denali’s Skeletons in the closet (and workaround), Part II
I continued to check SQL Server 2011 “Denali” for few things I dislike on 2008 R2 and tried to find...
2011-07-11
615 reads
Select random records using TABLESAMPLE clause
While I was reading Martin Catherall’s post about Selecting from a table with no rows returned I remembered TABLESAMPLE function...
2011-07-11
1,387 reads
How to merge (combine) date intervals in T-SQL
On my current project, I am dealing with date intervals in T-SQL very heavily. I’ve hit interesting issue recently – how...
2011-07-08
2,160 reads
Showing slowest parts of SQL query
I’ve received interesting question/requirement few days ago:
“… When viewing a query plan graphically, we usually have to hunt for the...
2011-07-08
1,666 reads
Wife and kids are leaving for holiday (it’s not off-topic)
My wife and kids are leaving for holiday (without me). Bad thing is that I will miss them, good thing...
2011-07-07
1,294 reads
Denali’s Skeletons in the closet, Part I
I’ve started to play little bit with SQL Server 2011 CTP Denali to find out whether some open wounds were...
2011-07-06
463 reads
Less code with rethrowing “exception” in SQL Server 2011
I wrote about some skeletons in the Denali’s closet here. Let’s also put some good on the table. Very handy...
2011-07-06
1,210 reads
SQL Server on steroids with RAM disk
I’ve faced pretty common situation recently – you need to work with huge data during development/testing. It’s good if you have...
2011-07-05
2,572 reads
Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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