SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 1
Sonny Bryans Smokehouse Bbq would make an interesting classroom
Today was the first day of my first SQLskills event. The event...
2011-02-22
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PowerPointShell
I wanted to add a neat demo to my .NET Powers Activate! Form of PowerShell! presentation that would really demonstrate...
2011-02-18
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Presenting for the PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter
On Wednesday, February 16 at 2:00pm CST I’ll be presenting “.NET Powers Activate! Form of PowerShell!” to the PASS PowerShell...
2011-02-14
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SQL Saturday #57 Slides, Code & Video
This past weekend I spoke at SQL Saturday #57 in Houston, TX.
I want to thank the local PASS chapter HASSUG,...
2011-01-30
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A Half-Price Seat at the Masters’ Table
Well, it looks like I half-won the SQLskills competition for a free seat at a SQLskills Master Immersion Event on...
2011-01-27
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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...
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
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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;