Run T-SQL in Parallel

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• John Huang’s Blog

Writing CLR procedures to run T-SQL concurrently is not an extremely new idea. I have seen a lot of implementations...

2015-12-03

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Print Long String

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• John Huang’s Blog

Quite often, I output information through PRINT command. It works well only when message is shorter than 8000 bytes. When...

2015-11-26 (first published: 2015-11-19)

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Get All Referenced Tables and Columns

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• John Huang’s Blog

I was always challenged when my customers asked me what tables and columns are referenced by a stored procedure which...

2015-11-19

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Changed SoundEx Disables Index While Upgrading to SQL 2012

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• John Huang’s Blog

Implementation of SoundEx function is changed in SQL Server 2012, described here. For an example, the result of SOUNDEX(‘Csomorova’) in...

2013-12-17

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Create Semaphore in Sybase

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• John Huang’s Blog

It seems like I am going to write another none SQL stuff again. No. This is a real life scenario....

2013-11-07

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Len() and DataLength()

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• John Huang’s Blog

Both system functions, Len() and DataLength(), in SQL Server are used to measure the length of the data. The main...

2013-05-16

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Protect Yourself from Using DBCC WritePage

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• John Huang’s Blog

I blogged DBCC WritePage a year ago here http://www.sqlnotes.info/2011/11/23/dbcc-writepage/. It’s an extremely dangerous command especially with the last parameter “directORbufferpool”...

2013-05-14

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Attach Database with Missing NDF File

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• John Huang’s Blog

I wonder if you’ve had the situation that I had before where you have to attach a database with one...

2013-05-13 (first published: 2013-05-07)

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• Discuss

Bring Offline File Online — Modify SQL Server Metadata

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• John Huang’s Blog

In my last post, I demonstrated how to mount a database with missing NDF files. In the end, we still...

2013-05-09

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Fix Page Checksum

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• John Huang’s Blog

A checksum value is tagged with every data page in SQL Server. This is used to detect issues on the...

2013-05-02

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