Storage - A meeting of minds
Even if you are not an infrastructure guy a good grasp of storage basics will stand you in good stead
2012-07-16
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Even if you are not an infrastructure guy a good grasp of storage basics will stand you in good stead
2012-07-16
5,474 reads
Switching from 32 BIT SQL Server to a 64 BIT edition illustrates how removing a bottleneck from a system can have a detrimental affect overall
2012-01-31
17,133 reads
Longtime author and expert DBA David Poole examines a few T-SQL commands that he has never used. Learn how some of these little used T-SQL items function and see if they work for you.
2011-12-23 (first published: 2009-07-20)
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SQL Server architect David Poole sets about exploring sp_prepexec when called from nHibernate.
2011-12-08
9,833 reads
Mind mapping software allows the rapid capture of thoughts and ideas. It is a killer app that can easily help a busy DBA capture their thoughts
2011-12-01
8,131 reads
A lively comparison of Pascal's triangle to root cause analysis from David Poole.
2011-10-19
4,549 reads
2011-09-15
11,712 reads
An interesting mystery on why some nHibernate performance issues might exist on your systems. Read this piece from SQL Server expert David Poole and look to see if this is a problem you can easily solve in your environment.
2011-04-11
6,171 reads
Longtime DBA David Poole brings us an interesting situation in involving setting up a user to allow Excel to query data from SQL Server.
2010-08-13 (first published: 2008-08-13)
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David Poole takes a look at the Massively Parallel Processing world for database servers.
2010-08-11
4,601 reads
By Steve Jones
Thanks for attending my sessions. Resources below: Slides: Using Data API Builder GitHub repo: ...
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It...
By Steve Jones
I was creating a question on sp_readerrorlog and realized that this procedure is different...
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers