My book “Learn T-SQL from Scratch” is launched
A lot of my colleagues and people in my network reached out to me to train them on the SQL Server and T-SQL. They think that my style of...
2021-11-23
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Brahmanand Shukla
- Website: https://sqlservercarpenter.com/
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/brahmanand-shukla
Script to create copies of the existing object
Many a time we need copies of an object but with different names. I also got a requirement to process the files in parallel using SSIS. We had already...
2021-09-17 (first published: 2021-09-09)
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Divide the rows of a column in equals batches in grid format
I published an article Divide the rows in equals batches few days ago. One of my reader requested me to help him with a requirement to divide a column’s...
2021-09-13 (first published: 2021-08-28)
532 reads
Get the month end dates of last N years
Here is a simple T-SQL script that may come handy if you need the month end dates of last N years. N is the number of years. The output...
2021-09-03 (first published: 2021-08-13)
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Divide the rows in equals batches
Here is the simple and practical use case of NTILE function. We’ve used it to divide the rows of sys.columns into N batches. N is the batch size. We’ve...
2021-08-25 (first published: 2021-08-15)
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Get the month end dates of last N months
Here is a simple T-SQL script that may come handy if you need the month end dates of last N months. N is the number of months. The output...
2021-08-13
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SSIS Logging – Linking sysssislog with custom log
I was working on an ETL solution, which was expected to run for hours. It has become extremely important to track the errors properly, so as to debug the...
2021-07-05 (first published: 2021-06-21)
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Query to find Nonclustered Index clashing with Clustered Index
It’s being quite a long time when I made the last post. Actually, I was lacking a topic that should trigger me to write. Finally, I got one when...
2021-05-12 (first published: 2021-04-28)
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Lesser-known facts of Explicit Transactions
Transactions are of various kinds in SQL Server such as Autocommit, Implicit, Explicit and Batch-scoped. I personally found this article quite helpful if you wish to understand Implicit Transactions....
2021-03-22 (first published: 2021-03-16)
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Behavior of numeric data types with ”
As we all know, there are various numeric data types, such as TINYINT, INT, SMALLINT, BIGINT, NUMERIC, DECIMAL, SMALLMONEY, MONEY and FLOAT. I was working on a SSIS package,...
2021-03-10 (first published: 2021-03-07)
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SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Hyperscale Replicas III
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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