Source Control for the Reluctant DBA
This is the 2nd post in the series named SQL Server and Continuous Integration. The previous post explained the problems I...
2016-07-13
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SQL Server and Continuous Integration
This is the 1st in a series of posts on SQL Server and Continuous Integration. Some of the tools I’ll be...
2016-07-07
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Selective Logging with the UPDATE() Function
Triggers can be very useful when you want to log changes to your data, but what if you’re only interested...
2016-06-22 (first published: 2016-06-16)
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Deletes Ignore Check Constraints
I know it sounds a bit odd but DELETE statements really do ignore table constraints. Running the code below in...
2016-06-03 (first published: 2016-05-30)
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Broken Update With Join
Last month I wrote a post titled Broken Left Join which covered an easy to make mistake that I see...
2016-05-26 (first published: 2016-05-18)
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Minimum Memory Grant Query Hint
This month Wendy Pastrick is the host for T-SQL Tuesday #78. This month we have to “learn something new and blog...
2016-05-19 (first published: 2016-05-10)
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Cumulative Updates Every 2 Months
The SQL Server team is implementing an Incremental Servicing Model (ISM) to deliver updates for SQL Server. This is basically a...
2016-04-25
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Broken Left Join
Here is a simple example of a LEFT JOIN that returns the sales stats for all employees under 21.
SELECT e.Name,...
2016-04-21
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Partition Switching #TSQL2SDAY #77
The ALTER TABLE..SWITCH command allows you to almost instantly move large amounts of data from one table to another. It does...
2016-04-20 (first published: 2016-04-12)
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The ‘In Recovery’ Mystery
Last week I received an email from one of our sysadmins asking why one of our databases kept showing as...
2016-03-31 (first published: 2016-03-22)
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Blogs
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely Indexes are...
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Brian Kelley
I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Managing unused indexes
While doing some housekeeping activity on several old but large production databases, I come...
Cloud Performance Considerations
How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...
Question of the Day
Striped Backup File Limits
In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?
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