Phil Factor delves into SQL Prompt's performance rule, PE012, which will advise you if it detects the use of the SET statements within a stored procedure or trigger, which might cause unnecessary recompilations, though the issue extends to other types of batches.
2020-02-03
Since SQL Server now runs in Linux, more database professionals will begin to learn this operating system. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates how to set up an Ubuntu virtual machine for learning.
2020-02-03
What advanced features are available in the Power BI Q&A functionality? Also, how does the new Q&A visual work?
2020-01-31
Phil Factor shows uses SQL Clone and PowerShell to automatically create images of all databases on an instance, if they don't already exist, and then create or refresh clones of each one, on all your development servers.
2020-01-30
In this article Dinesh Asanka looks at how to detach and attach a SQL Server database using the SSMS GUI and using T-SQL commands.
2020-01-30
If you avoid illegal characters and reserved words in your identifiers, you'll rarely need delimiters. Sadly, SSMS applies square bracket delimiters indiscriminately, as a precaution, when generating build scripts. Phil Factor provides a handy function that adds quoted delimiters only where they are really needed and then sits back and lets SQL Prompt strip out any extraneous square brackets, in a flash.
2020-01-29
Practically every SQL Server Database Administrator operating in an on-premises environment is familiar with Transact-SQL DBCC statements that serve the role of Database Console Commands. However, there are some additional considerations that should be considered when using them in the context of Azure SQL Database deployments.
2020-01-29
In this article author Joe Gavin covers how to transfer files using SFTP with a SQL Server Agent job.
2020-01-28
Many organizations have known the fact that data have been evolved from the by-product of corporate applications into a strategic asset [1]. Like other corporate assets, the asset requires specialized skills to maintain and analyze. With modern data analytic tools, for example Python, R, SAS and SPSS, IT professionals can build models and uncover previous unknown knowledge from the ocean of data.
2020-01-27
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Database table constraints such as foreign keys and default values ensure reliability of the data. In this article, Phil Factor demonstrates a way to find any data that breaks the build so it can be corrected before deployment.
2020-01-27
By Steve Jones
If it fails where you thought it would fail that is not a failure....
By Steve Jones
One of the language changes in SQL Server 2025 that I’ve seen a lot...
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, but I decided to put my own entry in as...
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What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.uspGetBillofMaterials')) AS [Object Definition]; GOSee possible answers