One thing I have gotten wrong before, or not elaborated on before in presentations on mirroring, although Roman Rehak mentioned...
2010-12-16
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Just this past week on Tuesday afternoon, U.K. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham spoke in the Wilson Room for the House...
2010-01-15
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Let's say it is a late Monday morning, because something always comes up before you are required at your vocation,...
2009-08-10
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You've probably all noticed a change since SQL Server 2000 with respect to objects: formerly DB.ObjectOwner.Object ,
2009-07-14
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The goal of this post is to understand the procedure cache and execution plans to ensure we use fewer resources and that queries run better. Better means higher throughput, more concurrency and fewer resources – as described by MVP Joe Webb during SQLTeach in Vancouver just last month.
2009-07-08
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The goal of this post is to explain how to handle errors thanks to a useful T-SQL functionality, available since SQL 2005 onwards, that developers are already used to – and similar to how exceptions are handled in the Visual Studio environment.
2009-06-11
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The goal of this post is to explain how to take advantage of Auto-Retry and why you will want to use it. I hope to clarify in which circumstances an auto-retry works best and when not to use it also. The (disclaimer!) point is that every job has its own constraints, requirements, and has to be evaluated individually for whether an auto-retry will work. I will try and keep this summary short and crisp, but still with enough detail to understand auto retry best.
2009-06-01
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Starting the summer 2002, for about a year or so, the team and I embarked on a project to develop business for local utilities giant Hydro Quebec, by developing a web site for the twenty-first International Commission on Large Dams' congress in Montreal, where it was hosted in 2003.
2009-03-30
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I diverge a little from the typical coding-based/oriented best practice to one that is focused on governance within public or government organisations with respect to the security of the data in databases used for annual reports. Internal controls fall...
2009-02-19
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As reporting requirements increase, it seems that aggregate functionalities have thankfully risen to the occasion concurrently. To maintain its competitive edge as Staples Canada’s best vendor, BaldGorilla, where I’m currently consulting, has been able...
2009-02-05
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By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
By DataOnWheels
Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
So folks we have around 30/40 sql server failover cluster insatnce with each having...
Hello, How to add a UNIX_TIMESTAMP at my publish_date please CREATE TABLE [dbo].[latest_info]( [id]...
hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers