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
1,164 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
1,553 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
650 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
35,211 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
4,398 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
591 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
14,379 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
820 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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