Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE – TSQL Tuesday #10!
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This blog was originally posted on December 17, 2009. I’ve pulled it out of the closet for...
2010-09-14
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T-12d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)
SQL Saturday: All the COOL kids are doing it!
It’s only twelve days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be...
2010-09-13
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Tip: Use System Views to Compare Column Datatypes
Let’s say that you have a staging table, that then loads to a destination table in the same database. If...
2010-09-13
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Tip: RESTORE FILELISTONLY / WITH MOVE
As we’ve seen in recent DBARant-able tales, not everyone is completely familiar with methods of restoring SQL backup files to...
2010-09-08
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SELECT, Deconstructed
Today let’s expand on the logical processing order of SELECT that I mentioned in last week’s N Things Worth Knowing...
2010-08-31
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N Things Worth Knowing About CTEs
If you haven’t messed with them yet, you should know that CTEs (Common Table Expressions) - new in SQL Server 2005...
2010-08-26
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N Things Worth Knowing About SELECT
SELECT is this kind of Swiss Army Knife
SELECT is our bedrock, our foundation, our now-and-forever T-SQL multitasker…and it’s one of the...
2010-08-23
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Random Fun – Password Rules Cheatsheet
Piggybacking tangentially off of Tim Mitchell’s (blog, Twitter) SSC editorial Turn a Bad Job into a Good Experience…yesterday I got...
2010-08-17
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Tip: Change Multiple Field Formats in SSRS
One of the things about SSRS that irritates me is that in the graphical editor, you have to set the...
2010-08-13
1,957 reads
Tip: Connect to dBASE files in SSIS
This has come up several times in the course of the last TWO jobs, so I’ll put it here for...
2010-08-12
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Detecting Deadlocks Quickly
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