Meme Monday: 11 Words or Less
Thomas LaRock (Blog | Twitter) has started a community blog series call Meme Monday.
Here’s my entry:
Community is nice, but displaces work if...
2011-04-04
730 reads
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas: Wrap-up
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas was a great event. The venue was great, although parking was a little unclear (I had...
2011-04-04
783 reads
SQL Saturday #63 – Dallas: Resources
I had the opportunity to present my “What Can You Do With PowerShell?” session in Dallas at SQL Saturday #63....
2011-04-02
637 reads
Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell
Backups Abound
The Annoyance
Sometimes when we’re trying to track down a problem and looking through SQL’s Logs we have to dig...
2011-03-31
14,294 reads
NOLOCK for Developers
What is NOLOCK?
NOLOCK is a table hint for SQL Server that tells the engine to not take locks and ignore...
2011-03-25
1,740 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 5
Overview
Today was the fifth and final day of the Internals & Performance immersion event. I have really enjoyed learning from not...
2011-02-26
1,777 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 4
Overview
We just finished the fourth day of SQLskills learning. Today was all on indexes and statistics. We learned about choosing...
2011-02-25
1,390 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 3
Overview
Today was mostly about Table Design, Partitioning, with a little of Indexing. Partitioning is a big, complex topics with a...
2011-02-24
469 reads
PowerShell Script for Paul’s Survey: how is your tempdb configured?
Paul Randal (b | t) posted a survey how is your tempdb configured? Since I just happen to be at a...
2011-02-23
740 reads
SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 2
Overview
Day two of the SQLskills Immersion Event is over and I have listed the interesting parts below. The food, again,...
2011-02-23
700 reads
Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Be Wary of Data
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;