SQL Saturday 49 Delivery Mechanisms - Presentation Slide Deck and Files
This past weekend, my wife and I travelled down to Orlando for SQL Saturday 49. I wasn't planning on presenting,...
2010-10-20
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Brian K. McDonald
Return Indexes for a Particular Table using TSQL
I posted a blog recently about returning a listing of all indexes for database, which is good if you want...
2010-10-16
1,151 reads
When was SQL Server Restarted?
While doing some performance testing recently and utilizing some of the DMV’s I figured, I better find out when the...
2010-10-16
1,547 reads
Andy Warren’s Word Counter
I typically don’t blog about other people blogs, because quite frankly I don’t like giving summations of the work someone...
2010-10-14
645 reads
List Indexes For Database using TSQL
A while ago, I showed you how to find out what indexes were on a table using the GUI. Today,...
2010-10-14
34,644 reads
Running Totals for Each Group
A while ago, I posted a blog on how one could perform running totals using Reporting Services and a user...
2010-10-11
4,393 reads
Time Saver – Presentation Preparation
Presenting is a huge fear for many and it is no different for me. I have been presenting at SQL...
2010-10-10
589 reads
Determine if Directory Exists using xp_cmdshell
Recently, I came across a forum post from a user trying to determine if a directory existed in the file...
2010-10-06
14,289 reads
Strange but True - Report Parameter Label Blank
Here is another one of those strange but true things that I come across every so often which I thought...
2010-10-06
3,573 reads
Converting Dates to Integers
While working on a project recently, I came across a conversion that was trying to convert a date to an...
2010-10-05
798 reads
Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Huge frustration - Database watcher with two elastic pools
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers