Setting Windows To Prefer IPv4 Over IPv6
This post is a bit different from my usual SQL Serer posts, I recently hit a problem where a legacy...
2018-05-03
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Gavin Draper
SQL Server Dedicated Admin Connection and Why You NEED It!
DAC or Dedicated Admin Connection is one of those things you don’t know you need until it’s too late.
What is...
2018-05-02
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SQL Server Advanced Aggregations Part 3 GROUPING/GROUPING_ID
This post is part 3 of a 3 part series…
Part 1 Grouping SetsPart 2 ROLLUP and CUBEPart 3 GROUPING and...
2018-05-01
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SQL Server Removing Outliers With Standard Deviation
When running aggregations for reporting in some situations outliers can throw out the numbers.
For example lets say we have a...
2018-04-30
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SQL Server Minimum Memory Setting
There is almost never a reason to set this setting unless you’re running other apps on the same server as...
2018-04-29
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SQL Server Advanced Aggregations Part 2 ROLLUP and CUBE
This post is part 2 of a 3 part series…
Part 1 Grouping SetsPart 2 ROLLUP and CUBEPart 3 GROUPING and...
2018-04-28
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SQL Server Advanced Aggregations Part 1 Grouping Sets
This post is part 1 of a 3 part series…
Part 1 Grouping SetsPart 2 ROLLUP and CUBEPart 3 GROUPING and...
2018-04-26
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SQL Server Nested Transactions Probably Don't Work How You Think
SQL Server allows you to nest multiple transactions but the results of doing so are completely not obvious.
Take the following...
2018-04-25
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SQL Server and Evil Greedy Data Types
In a recent post, I talked about SQL Server reads and how the data is stored in pages. One of...
2018-03-02
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What Do Read Counts On Your SQL Server Execution Plans Even Mean?
If you’ve ever spent any time looking at execution plans you will have almost definitely noticed all the read counts...
2018-02-27
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Blogs
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
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A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
Prepping for Certification, Part 2 of ?
By Brian Kelley
The advantage of understanding the make-up of the exam: I can tailor my efforts...
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Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers