SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes
During a large ETL process from a staging table , UPDATE was creating an error on a CONVERT.
Msg 245, Sev 16,...
2012-01-30
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SQL Server - Generate SQL INSERT from Excel
Generate SQL Server INSERT statements with Excel Concatenate.
A developer requested access to a Production database. The details were to COPY...
2012-01-27
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SQL Server – Error Logs recycle without SQL Server Restart
If some long running error situation , the Error Log can become very big. In those situations , it can be time-consuming...
2012-01-26
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SQL Server - BACKUP LOG WITH NO_LOG
The BACKUP LOG WITH NO_LOG and WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY options are discontinued in SQL Server 2008.
There is no replacement for this...
2012-01-22
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SQL Server – Modifying Production Data Good Practise
Q. “I need to modify Production Data directly on a Production database. What are some steps I can follow to...
2012-01-21
992 reads
SQL Cachestore flush
For each cleared cachestore in the plan cache SQL Server reports a message in the error logs , such as :
SQL...
2012-01-20
1,152 reads
SQL Server – Powershell Excel to HTML
SQL Server, Powershell and Excel are a good mix . But saving to Powershell output to HTML is versatile – if requiring...
2012-01-19
840 reads
SQL Performance Tuning - optimizing for response time
Different queries are optimized for different objectives
Response Times and Throughput are two standard objectives.
Response Time is about retrieving the hits...
2012-01-18
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Hungarian Notation is misunderstood
Hungarian notation refers to a identifier naming convention. The variable indicates the variables use – as opposed to what they are....
2012-01-17
939 reads
SQL Agent Jobs – Schedule in seconds
1) How can I execute a SQL Server Agent Job every few seconds? Administrators try to use SQL Server Agent as...
2012-01-16
1,802 reads
Blogs
Enabling an Index: #SQLNewBlogger
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I don’t do a lot of work with disabled index, but I learned how...
Back to Boston for SQL Saturday
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I’m leaving again tomorrow for a trip. This time I head back to Boston...
T-SQL Tuesday #179: What’s In Your Data Detective Toolkit?
By Tim Mitchell
Most of us who work with data have, at least a few times, been...
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Switch from MSSQL SVC to MSA - Unable to start services
Using MSSQL 2019 standard edition It was installed using SVC Account. But now I...
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How are statistics stored?
How are the statistics for query optimization stored in SQL Server?
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