My Most Embarrassing SQL Moment
T-SQL Tuesday #92: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday prompt. T-SQL Tuesday was created by Adam Machanic and is a way for...
2017-07-11
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Bert Wagner
How to Automatically Purge Historical Data From a Temporal Table
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Temporal Tables are awesome.
They make analyzing time-series data a cinch, and because they automatically track row-level history, rolling-back from an "oops" scenario doesn't mean...
2017-07-04
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How to Put SQL Column Names Onto Multiple Lines in SSMS
SQL in 60 Seconds is a series where I share SQL tips and tricks that you can learn and start using in less than a minute.
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2017-06-27
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5 Business Problems You Can Solve With Temporal Tables
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It's 4:30 pm on Friday and Mr. Manager comes along to tell you that he needs you to run some important ad-hoc analysis for...
2017-06-20
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Behind the Scenes of an Online Presentation
Last week I presented my session "DBAs vs Developers: JSON in SQL Server 2016" at the online GroupBy Conference.
As I prepared for the event, I thought about all of...
2017-06-13
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5 Things You Need to Do When Performance Testing JSON in SQL and C#
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Want to learn more about using JSON in SQL Server? Watch me present at the online GroupBy conference on June 9, 2017 at 8am.
I've...
2017-06-06
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How To Roll-Back Data in a Temporal Table
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So you've started using temporal tables because they make your point-in-time analysis queries super easy.
Your manager is happy because you're getting historical data to...
2017-05-30
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How To Use Temporal Tables For Easy Point-In-Time Analysis
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Have you ever needed to look at what data in a table used to look like?
If you have, it probably took a knuckle-cracking filled...
2017-05-23
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XML vs JSON Shootout: Which is Superior in SQL Server 2016?
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Additional performance comparisons available in an updated post.
Starting with the 2016 release, SQL Server offers native JSON support. Although the implementation is not perfect,...
2017-05-16
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One SQL Cheat Code For Amazingly Fast JSON Queries
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Recently I've been working with JSON in SQL Server 2016 a lot.
One of the hesitations many people have with using JSON in SQL Server...
2017-05-09
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Blogs
The Mystery of the Locked-Up Database -Scooby Dooing Episode 6
No Scooby-Doo story is complete without footprints leading to a hidden passage. In SQL...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A bunch of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
The Challenge of Implicit Transactions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw an article recently about implicit transactions and coincidentally, I had a friend...
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We’re running SQL Server 2019 with database compatibility level 150, and after recent tuning...
Changing the Recovery Time
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers